TechEmpower CTO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 2023, there were approximately 26.3 million software developers worldwide. This vast pool of talent showcases a wide range of experience and portfolios, quality of work, and inquisitiveness. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. In the 25 years that TechEmpower has been in business, we’ve seen thousands of companies come and go.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to Bloomberg, it values the company at roughly $2 billion. Mistral AI is also opening up its commercial platform today. As a reminder, Mistral AI raised […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AI has whet the appetites of organizations across nearly every sector. As AI pilots move toward production, discussions about the need for ethical AI are growing, along with terms like “fairness,” “privacy,” “transparency,” “accountability,” and the big one —”bias.” But ensuring those and other measures are taken into consideration is a weighty task that CIOs will be grappling with as AI becomes integral to how people work and conduct business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Kentucky-based non-profit healthcare system Norton Healthcare has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of millions of patients and employees during an earlier ransomware attack. Norton operates more than 40 clinics and hospitals in and around Louisville, Kentucky, and is the city’s third-largest private employer. The organization has more than 20,000 employees, and more than […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The EU has emerged as the first major power to introduce a comprehensive set of laws to govern the use of AI after it agreed on a landmark deal for the EU AI bill. The bill will turn into an EU law once it is approved by the European Parliament at a vote scheduled for early 2024. The provisional agreement defines the rules for the governance of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate general-purpose AI systems (GPAIS), such as ChatGPT.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I’m sure you’ve heard this before: “ Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away. ” Well, when it comes to a nationwide automotive group in the world’s largest automotive market, that proverb about a hundred could be hundreds of thousands. Founded in 2006 and based in Shanghai, China Grand Automotive Services Group Co., Ltd. (CGA) is China’s leading passenger car dealership and service business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

TikTok’s short-form video app is hitting a new milestone. The app, which reached 1 billion monthly active users in 2021, has now become the first non-game mobile app to generate $10 billion in consumer spending across the Apple App Store and Google Play combined, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai. The […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Artificial intelligence has already unlocked opportunities that most organizations never thought possible. Now, it’s time to pay for it, and that’s putting a spotlight squarely on the chief financial officer (CFO), who has increasingly become the gatekeeper deciding which projects get funded and how significantly AI will play a role in enterprise strategy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On Monday, a jury sided with Epic Games over Google in an antitrust case that could reshape how app marketplaces like Google Play are allowed to operate. The unanimous verdict wraps up a three-year-long legal battle between the companies. Epic, creator of the popular online multiplayer game Fortnite, first filed its lawsuit against Google in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a technique for building software that guides software development by writing tests. It was developed by Kent Beck in the late 1990's as part of Extreme Programming. In essence we follow three simple steps repeatedly: Write a test for the next bit of functionality you want to add. Write the functional code until the test passes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Two days before 23andMe disclosed that hackers had accessed the personal and genetic data of almost 7 million customers, the genetic testing giant updated its terms of service. The changes are an effort to make it more difficult for the victims of the breach to band together in filing a legal claim against the company, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The adoption of generative AI in the U.S. healthcare ecosystem has only just begun. Both healthcare payers and providers remain cautious about how to use this latest version of artificial intelligence, and rightfully so. You have to balance the potential benefits of generative AI with significant, important operational issues, such as ensuring patient data privacy and complying with regulatory requirements.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ford will cut production of its all-electric pickup truck in 2024 in an effort to match consumer demand. Ford executives signaled in October during its third-quarter earnings call plans to”adjust” production of its all-electric vehicles and delay about $12 billion in investments due to softening demand for higher priced premium electric vehicles.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AI is increasingly being embraced for workplace enhancements across every industry — and that includes the legal world. Pittsburgh-based global law firm Reed Smith has enlisted AI to facilitate resource management, improve employee engagement, and reduce imbalanced workloads among lawyers across the firm. The resulting Smart Resourcing earned Reed Smith a 2023 CIO 100 Award for innovation and IT leadership.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AtomicJar was seemingly a high flying early stage startup with a hefty (by today’s standards) $25 million Series A last January. It was building a commercial container testing platform, based on a popular open source project, always a nice combination. It would seem it was time to find product-market fit and take off, but instead […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Discussing a promotion with an employee when you’re not ready to give them one is a delicate balancing act, but it’s also a golden opportunity. It’s a chance to turn a potentially negative situation into a constructive, forward-looking dialogue. By approaching the conversation with empathy, support, and a focus on the future, you set the stage for a collaborative relationship with your employee.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Omidyar Network, backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, plans to shut down its India operations, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in a stunning development for the venture firm that has backed nearly 75 startups in the South Asian market. TechCrunch couldn’t determine why Omidyar had decided to pull from the Indian market, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The risks around generative AI are real. But this does not necessarily justify inaction, nor does it require a blanket approach to generative AI where marketers either blindly take risks or avoid AI altogether. In fact, a promising way to navigate this is a nuanced approach for which marketers systematically identify areas to experiment with generative AI and areas to wait-and-see.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Helicity Space has closed a $5 million seed funding to accelerate development of a technology that could finally unlock fast, efficient travel in deep space. That technology is fusion propulsion, which has long been the domain of science fiction. The startup says that they have discovered a way to use plasma jets for fusion reaction. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Nondisruptive creation is when you create a new market without needing to tear down or displace others or your own business. There are no failed companies, lost jobs, or destroyed markets in its wake, opening a path to innovation where business and society can better thrive together. It offers the immense potential to innovate new markets where none existed before: Think of the billion-dollar industry the Square credit card reader unlocked, for example.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Many companies already use generative AI tools, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can help improve workers’ performance by as much as 40% compared with workers who don’t use it. However, only businesses with large engineering teams can build their own AI workforces. An Australia-based startup, Relevance AI, wants to help companies of all sizes build custom AI […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Clarity is key to better collaboration and more productive workplace conflict. Great teams know where they’re going, and need each other to be successful. Easy to say. Harder to do. Today in our “Great Teamwork Series”, we share 12 collaboration habits to help get (and keep) everyone on the same page. You can use these habits to assess how you’re showing up to influence your team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Apple rolled out iOS 17.2 today, giving iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max users the ability to record spatial videos. The new feature lets users film in three dimensions and experience their favorite memories and special moments on Apple Vision Pro, the upcoming mixed-reality headset. In order to create a three-dimensional video, Apple […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 11, 2023

InfoQ spoke to several technical leaders to understand how they adapt their communication strategies for the current challenges in the distributed and technology-driven workplaces.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Jon McNeill, founder of venture studio DvX and vice chair of the Cruise board, weighs in on where the U.S. stands in the EV revolution. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Dataiku

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here we are on the cusp of 2024. So many exciting product updates have happened at Dataiku this year over the course of six releases. In the first article of this series, we’ll take a look back through the year, but stay tuned for a look ahead to the future in another post, as well as an article on new Generative AI features. As it’s the holiday season, let’s have some fun and review some of the highlights of 2023 as though we’re walking through a winter wonderland!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher than last year and growing. Earlier this year, mass workforce reductions were driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups across many sectors also […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The Hustle

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Hey, remember August 2022, when a16z gave its biggest check — for $350m — to Adam Neumann to create Flow, an apartment startup? It was a controversial move, considering Neumann’s failure as CEO of the now-bankrupt WeWork. But Flow’s first building is here, and Business Insider ’s Ben Bergman was the first journalist to see it. OK, so what’s the deal?

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