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How prioritizing training and mentorship retains talent

CIO

At Discover ® , on-the-job training and mentorship are key components of how Discover cultivates and nurtures talent from within. Hear from three different employees about the unique training programs and opportunities they’ve had to develop their careers at Discover. I want to continue to help others access those same opportunities.”

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Four things that matter in the AI hype cycle

CIO

Second, if you’re selling software and services to other companies, you’re going to find that many have paused spending on new tools while they sort out exactly what their approach should be to the GenAI era. Finding similar text is reduced to finding the distance between two vectors. Training a large model is costly.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

. “[We are] introducing a database for AI, specifically a storage layer that helps to very efficiently store the data and then stream this to machine learning applications or training models to do computer vision, audio processing, NLP (natural language processing) and so on,” Buniatyan explained.

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HiddenLayer emerges from stealth to protect AI models from attacks

TechCrunch

According to Gartner, 30% of all AI cyberattacks in 2022 will leverage these techniques along with data poisoning, which involves injecting bad data into the dataset used to train models to attack AI systems. As in any industry, fighting security threats is a never-ending task. ” (Cook is unaffiliated with HiddenLayer.) .

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Andela begins global expansion in 37 countries months after going remote across Africa

TechCrunch

Andela, which builds engineering teams tapping African talent, goes fully remote and opens to the wider continent. When Andela launched in 2014, it built hubs in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to source, vet and train engineers to be part of remote teams for international companies.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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How Generative AI Is Empowering CIOs and IT Professionals

CloudSphere

Despite their expertise in this space, however, many IT professionals find effectively maintaining these environments to be quite challenging. While some companies have the resources to invest, develop, train and create LLMs, the rest of the industry will be users and customers of these systems. There are actually a few reasons.