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4 ways to ask hard questions about emerging tech risks

CIO

As CIOs and technology leaders, we’re almost always in the role of the technology evangelist, bringing both mainstream and emerging technology into the organization for business benefit. Technology has always been used for positive and negative effect. What’s new and different today?

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Deep tech startups in need of funding should consider federal grants

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who aim to power next-generation technology without the need for expensive hardware that takes billions of dollars to develop and years to deploy. For deep tech startups, the capital game can be a tricky one to play. applicants signals that your innovation has strong technical and commercial merit and the potential for broad U.S.

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How to kick-start your generative AI strategy

CIO

When a technology this powerful comes along where you have to learn by doing, finding reasons not to do it is a pretty big error,” he says. These risks are things you have to worry about with any other large-scale database technology project—but they’re not terrifying, and you have a great deal to gain,” says McAfee. By not entering.

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What is Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Software

Openxcell

COTS stands for Commercial-Off-the-Shelf, and it refers to software targeted to a certain, specially defined range of business based on predetermined specifications. It also alleviates concerns about the challenges of developing and sustaining private IT solutions compared to Commercial-Off-the-Shelf available IT applications.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Everyone is running around trying to apply this technology that’s moving so fast, but without business outcomes, there’s no point to it,” says Redmond, CIO at power management systems manufacturer Eaton Corp. “We We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We We want to maintain discipline and go deep.”

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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

TechCrunch

“The challenges companies are facing scaling hybrid workplaces and managing retention in this market is accentuated because people aren’t getting the learning and development opportunities that they should. What constitutes a “teamwork platform,” exactly?

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AI chip startup Mythic rises from the ashes with $13M, new CEO

TechCrunch

While the tranche is a fraction of the startup’s previous raise ($70 million), Mythic claims that the tranche will enable it to bring its “next-generation” product — an improved energy-efficient AI processor — to market. Mythic initially worked on projects for the U.S. So what went wrong?