Crunchbase News

APRIL 16, 2024

In the world of early-stage fundraising, the allure of the Simple Agreement for Future Equity, or SAFE, often seems like a no-brainer choice for entrepreneurs. Designed as a founder-friendly vessel to sail the choppy waters of early-stage funding, a SAFE agreement promises a straightforward path to securing capital without the immediate dilution of ownership or valuation discussions, allowing founders to focus on what they do best: building a company.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s Wednesday night. You’re fast asleep aboard the USS Enterprise Star Trek. Suddenly, you wake to an urgent announcement and rush to the bridge of the starship. Captain James T. Kirk is activating warp drive and you see the iconic blurred streaks of light as the spaceship reaches warp speed. Within seconds, you are traveling faster than the speed of light to reach a Klingon war in the Alpha Quadrant–arriving in minutes versus years.

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Xebia

APRIL 16, 2024

As everyone has probably noticed in the news, Duet AI, Google’s collaborative AI tool for the Workspace software suite, has recently been renamed Gemini for Workspace. As part of this update, Gemini is being integrated into the Workspace apps. Gemini for Workspace will offer a standalone experience allowing users to chat with Gemini while providing enterprise-level data protection.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

Jason Snyder faces the same challenge nearly all CIOs encounter when looking to fill open positions: a tight labor market, where fierce competition for workers has meant months-long vacancies. Snyder, secretary of the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security and Commonwealth CIO for Massachusetts, responded by overhauling the agency’s recruitment and retention practices.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2024

The ability to develop crisp mental models around the problems you want to solve and understanding the why before you start working on the how is an increasingly critical skill, especially in the age of AI. Coding is one of the things AI does best and its capabilities are quickly improving. However, there’s a catch: Code created by an AI can be syntactically and semantically correct but not functionally correct.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 16, 2024

Venture funding overall was still sluggish , but cybersecurity startups saw some love from investors in the first quarter of 2024. To be sure, this is not the salad days of 2021 — cybersecurity funding was still down year to year — but the sector saw its best funding quarter in three quarters. All told, cybersecurity startups raised nearly $2.7 billion in 154 deals in Q1, per Crunchbase data.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

The next generation of leaders in family businesses is poised to embrace the transformative power of generative AI (GenAI) despite marked resistance from the incumbent leaders, according to a PwC report. The global report, based on a survey of over 900 NextGen individuals aged between 18 and early 40s, was aimed at understanding family businesses’ “Success and Succession in an AI World.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2024

Successful transformations harness the collective wisdom of middle managers and teams. To increase your company’s chances, you need to: 1) Enlist your very best middle managers. Transforming a business demands a blend of creativity and ingenuity. By setting this challenge you can also test and nurture the next generation of leaders. 2) Empower the middle to sponsor transformative changes.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

La trasformazione digitale è un percorso a tappe e, per molti CIO italiani, passare di livello due vuol dire sistematizzare i progetti in ottica di data-driven company mettendo al centro la sostenibilità. Se già la continua ridefinizione del ruolo del Chief Information Officer non fosse abbastanza, ecco gli obiettivi ESG (Environment, Sustainability, Governance) diventare un’altra parte essenziale del suo compito.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

One of the constants in my more than two decades of executive coaching is the desire and need to build the muscles required to develop and execute competitive and innovative strategies. It came up with a client again as recently as this month. With a few modifications, here’s the quick outline I offered him on five ways to build your strategic muscles.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 16, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the customer experience in industries across the globe. Customers are building generative AI applications using large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs), which enhance customer experiences, transform operations, improve employee productivity, and create new revenue channels.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 16, 2024

AI versus AI will be the central drama, but the outcome depends profoundly on human choices around how intelligently we govern this technology.

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Perficient

APRIL 16, 2024

Health insurers today are facing a rapidly evolving landscape of complex expectations and requirements. Whether it’s responding to government mandates regarding interoperability and data privacy or customer demand for a seamless digital experience, constant evolution is key to staying at the forefront of industry standards. Your future success will be determined by the investments you make now in your capabilities and technology.

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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 16, 2024

Microsoft announced a $1.5 billion strategic investment in United Arab Emirates-based artificial intelligence firm G42 — the biggest new round to go to an AI startup this year. While Microsoft investing big in AI is nothing new — see OpenAI — the deal with G42, an AI holding company, comes with other entanglements that likely needed to be cleared before the announcement of the deal.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 16, 2024

As of the first quarter of 2024, 83% of developers were involved in devops -related activities such as performance monitoring, security testing, or CI/CD , according to the State of CI/CD Report 2024, published by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation, a part of the Linux Foundation. Released April 16, the State of CI/CD Report 2024 is downloadable from the CD Foundation , authored by developer researcher SlashData, and sponsored by CloudBees, provider of a DevSecOps platform.

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Dell EMC

APRIL 16, 2024

GenAI poses challenges—driving cybersecurity evolution—and promises enhanced threat detection, response and operational efficiency.

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Confluent

APRIL 16, 2024

In the era of digital transformation, robust partnerships are key to driving success. Learn how Accelerate with Confluent is fostering meaningful collaborations with system integrators.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 16, 2024

Modern software applications are underpinned by a large and growing web of APIs , microservices , and cloud services that must be highly available, fault tolerant, and secure. The underlying networking technology must support all of these requirements, of course, but also explosive growth. Unfortunately, the previous generation of technologies are too expensive, brittle, and poorly integrated to adequately solve this challenge.

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Tenable

APRIL 16, 2024

You know Tenable as a cybersecurity industry leader whose world-class exposure management products are trusted by our approximately 43,000 customers, including about 60% of the Fortune 500. But sometimes we like to give you a peek behind the curtain to share how we protect our own house against cyberattacks – and that’s what this blog is about. Today we’re sharing our experience adopting the supply-chain security framework SLSA, with the hopes that the lessons we learned will be helpful to you.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 16, 2024

Open-source database provider Qdrant has made available Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a dedicated vector database to be offered in a managed hybrid cloud model. Qdrant, the open-source foundation of both Qdrant Cloud and Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, is a vector similarity search engine and vector database written in Rust. Qdrant offers a set of features for performance optimization and can handle billions of vectors with scale and memory safety, the company said.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 16, 2024

Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion into G42, an artificial intelligence firm based in the United Arab Emirates, as the U.S. giant looks to strengthen its position in the technology amid fast-rising competition. Microsoft President Brad Smith will join the board of directors of G42.

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2024

We’ll talk about ambition, trust, DEI, and more during this half-day virtual event.

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 16, 2024

There is a surprising amount of debate about how to use CSS classes. The correct side of this debate argues that we should use classes to describe what the content is, what role it serves in our UI; i.e., a section of a page displaying employee information might be classed employee. If we want the "name" field of an employee to have a red underline, we might write a rule like: employee.name { text-decoration : underline red; } The wrong side argues that this doesn't tell you what it

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DevOps.com

APRIL 16, 2024

Two thirds of developers are using AI in product development, primarily for coding, documentation, and conducting research.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 16, 2024

Figure 01, can you choose a healthy snack for me from that basket?” Brett Adcock asks the humanoid robot lurking behind a table close by. Its options are an orange and a bag of chips. The robot–a.ka.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 16, 2024

Migrating to an open source stack gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs. Here's how to do it with open source.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 16, 2024

OpenAI confronted a common problem for AI image generators when it broadly released a new edit feature for ChatGPT’s DALL-E this month. Oftentimes, AI image generators misunderstand what you want to create, so OpenAI’s new tool allows you to highlight sections of your image, and change them to your specifications.

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Newgen Software

APRIL 16, 2024

Today, low code application development platforms are becoming the go-to option for enterprises to accelerate their digital journeys. According to Gartner , “low-code application platforms (LCAP) are expected to remain the largest component of the low-code development technology market through 2022, increasing nearly 30% from 2020 to reach $5.8 billion in 2021.

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