TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch. A pitch deck for Anthropic’s Series C fundraising round discloses these and other long-term goals for the company, which was founded in 2020 by former OpenAI researchers.
CIO
APRIL 6, 2023
New Zealand’s start to 2023 has been challenging, with Auckland hit by torrential flooding in January followed by Cyclone Gabrielle in February, which left a trail of destruction across Northland, Hawkes Bay, and the East Coast. For Foodstuffs North Island, the supermarket cooperative behind well-known brands like New World, Pak’nSave, and Four Square, several of their stores were cut off, damaged, and without connectivity as a result.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
Over 20,000 applications flew into Y Combinator, which ended up plucking out 282 startups for its latest batch. And now we’re getting our first look at them through Demo Day. The first day’s demos included a healthy dose of artificial intelligence and open source, which is different from years past that were dominated by new fintech companies. That’s not entirely surprising; we were less than 10 minutes into Demo Day before we heard the phrase “Cerebral Valley.
CIO
APRIL 6, 2023
By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Artificial intelligence is something developers are excited to work on. So much so that many enterprises give their AI systems names to better tout their innovations and aspirations to the world ( Halo at Priceline or Michelangelo at Uber , for example). But, as the saying goes , when it comes to the typical consumer, people don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill; they want a quarter-inch hole.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter , we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase (disclosure: my former employer) and PitchBook reports. And here in the United States, things are looking grim.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
Perhaps you’ve been there before: An investor shrugs and waves their hand. “Go raise a friends and family round,” they say before perfunctorily throwing out a number worth three times more than the average Black household. A new white paper by the venture fund Fifth Star put into context how incongruous such statements are: The average friends and family round is $23,000.
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2023
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder. The post Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
Venture capital investors focused on food tech are calling 2023 the year when alternative seafood startups will make notable strides. Meanwhile, investors expect 40 investments to be made in this sector this year, up from 36 in 2022, according to the Good Food Institute’s annual investor report. Within the past year, TechCrunch reported on a number of those investments into startups producing alternatives to traditional seafood.
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2023
Synopsys plans to extend the capabilities of its Polaris Software Integrity Platform for securing application development environments by adding dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools along with the ability to scan code used to provision infrastructure. As a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, the Polaris Software Integrity Platform was created by combining the static application security testing […] The post Synopsys Preps Extensions to Polaris SaaS Platform appeared first o
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by two former Facebook engineers to create a new way of looking at application monitoring based on the internal tooling they had seen at Facebook. At the time, they foresaw a changing IT landscape that was being transformed by microservices and containerization and they believed (correctly as it turned out) that the modern IT stack required a different approach to monitoring.
CEO Insider
APRIL 6, 2023
When ERGs work, they work well in holistic ways. Not only do they build up the visibility of employees who might otherwise be “hidden,” but they enhance the overall corporate culture. They can also be beacons to incoming talent who like the idea of working for an employer that acknowledges, accepts, and supports their unique […] The post How Do Leaders Know Which ERGs They Need?
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
Ross Haleliuk Contributor Share on Twitter Ross Haleliuk is an investor and head of product at LimaCharlie.io. More posts by this contributor Time to trust: Questions cybersecurity customers ask and how to answer them 4 ways cybersecurity startups can boost adoption and shorten time to value Building products and companies in cybersecurity is not an easy task because in many ways, the industry behaves differently from others.
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2023
An analysis of more than 14 million workflows from thousands of organizations conducted by CircleCI, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, revealed the mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR) decreased by about 13% year-over-year. Half of CI workflows (50%) recovered from a failed run in 64 minutes or less. That compares to 73 minutes or more […] The post CircleCI Report Surfaces DevOps Productivity Gains appeared first on DevOps.com.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt , the premier event for startup investors and founders, is coming back September 19–21, 2023 — and we’ve mixed up the format. This year, we’re rethinking TC Sessions, the stand-alone industry events series, and merging them into the big annual tech event — which will once again be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
TechBeacon
APRIL 6, 2023
This May will mark five years since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. Although not the first legislation of its kind, it represented a landmark for data protection and a fundamental shift in how businesses manage and use their data.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
Staytuned Digital has $34 million in new equity and debt to continue developing a software suite for e-commerce brands with a goal of what co-founder Serge Kassardjian described as “the Salesforce suite for e-commerce stores.” “E-commerce has completely shifted and is moving to these emerging platforms, with Shopify being the biggest one,” he said. “In turn, we’re buying and building software that’s around the Shopify ecosystem.
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2023
A survey published today found that 75% of respondents recognized that automation silos hamper their ability to unify cloud operations across functions. Conducted by CloudBolt Software, the survey polled 350 senior IT and DevOps leaders at organizations with more than 3,000 employees. On a positive note, the survey found 57% of respondents were starting to […] The post Orgs Shift Toward Centralizing Automation Initiatives appeared first on DevOps.com.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
When SoftBank announced in 2019 that it had allocated $5 billion to investing in Latin American startups, it felt like an inflection point for the region. And then when the Japanese investment conglomerate announced it had committed another $3 billion to startups there, it was only further validation that Latin America was home to a formidable startup system.
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2023
As a developer, you’ve learned your craft. From your fingers comes the magic that builds the applications that run the world. You can literally create something from nothing! And not just software programs. You can create value that means revenue for your company. You’re a revenue machine — no, you’re a god, creating anything that’s […] The post Are you Being ‘Nice’ to Your Developers?
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
Boston! Are you ready for some green on 4/20? No, not that green. It’s TechCrunch Early Stage 2023! Soon enough, we’ll be coming straight atcha with a host of speakers, workshops, roundtables, and networking opportunities that are sure to accelerate your dream. *Cut to Mark Wahlberg speeding down the Big Dig, accelerating toward a dream.* At this one-day founder summit, you’ll get actionable advice and takeaways from top experts, meet other entrepreneurs taking similar journeys, share your
CEO Insider
APRIL 6, 2023
To what can we compare the framework of work? To what is “work-life” analogous? One comparison that comes to mind is a maze. Making your way through your work world is, in many ways, like meandering through a maze. And in case you’re wondering, you’re the mouse within it. Each day you hasten through your […] The post The Mouse in the Maze appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Well, hello there! Haje is getting a head start on the weekend, so it’s going to be me and you for the next two days. I’ve been among the group of TechCrunchers watching pitch after pitch at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. Here is part 1 of our favorites , with the second one coming later on today.
Palo Alto Networks
APRIL 6, 2023
As Women's History Month has come to a close, we would like to take a moment to recognize another remarkable female leader in our partner community. Recently, we had the pleasure of speaking with Stephanie Hagopian, Vice President of Physical and Cybersecurity Solutions at CDW Corporation. When asked about her journey to executive leadership, Stephanie shared that transitioning from a technical role to sales was pivotal in her career.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
SetSail set out to build a new way to compensate sales people, where based on the data, companies could pay salespeople on where they were in the pipeline, not in just one big chunk when they landed the sale. They believed this approach would enable salespeople to take more risks. Such an approach requires a great deal of data to understand where the sales process stands, and that data infrastructure it turns out is a great source for generative AI.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 6, 2023
In the world of software development, ensuring code quality is critical to the success of any project. Code that is buggy, unreliable, or inefficient can lead to costly errors and negative user experiences. One way to ensure code quality is through the use of testing methodologies, such as Unit Testing and Integration Testing. These two integration tests can be especially effective when integrated into a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflow.
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CEO Insider
APRIL 6, 2023
The things that happen to us in life are often not so much about what’s taking place in the moment, but about placing us on a path to lead the way for others. It would be years before I realized the truth of that. I was born in 1954. That year, the Supreme Court voted […] The post Growing Up in the Segregated South Was Instructive for Becoming Comfortable in Uncomfortable Settings appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 6, 2023
The field of machine learning has advanced considerably in recent years, enabling us to tackle complex problems with greater ease and accuracy. However, the process of building and training machine learning models can be a daunting task, requiring significant investments of time, resources, and expertise. This can pose a challenge for many individuals and organizations looking to leverage machine learning to drive innovation and growth.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 6, 2023
Advice from a time-management coach on navigating four key phases of the process.
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