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Pursuit closes $10M fund to spin up a self-sustaining job training program

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Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. Pursuit is building a model for job training that mitigates both these risks. Program grad Rook Soto and his family.

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Where’s the ROI for AI? CIOs struggle to find it

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“A chisel in the hands of a trained professional can create amazing things; a chisel in the hands of an amateur can be a lost opportunity.” Kane has seen companies roll out Microsoft Copilot, for example, without any employee training about its uses. CNH first unveiled an autonomous tractor concept in 2016.

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From fear to abundance: Rethinking job security in the age of generative AI

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Investments in education, training, and re-skilling programs can empower people to thrive in the age of genAI, creating a more inclusive and equitable workforce. Chet successfully took Apigee public before the company was acquired by Google in 2016. Chet earned his B.S. in engineering from Arizona State University.

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Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud

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Federal cloud and federal operating platform The path to the cloud began in 2016 with the creation of the Federal Cloud, Serrette says, and the ITZBund uses it for the federal e-file, collaboration scenarios, and as a project management and development platform. “But

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raises $100M

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.” Based in San Francisco, Replit was co-founded by programmers Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and designer Haya Odeh in 2016. Image Credits: Replit Replit offers an online, collaborative IDE that supports a range of programming languages, including JavaScript, Python, Go and C++. Replit offers a web-based IDE for software development.

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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

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The VC ‘Scramble for Europe’ breaks out in the East as a €70M fund breaks cover So it’s definitely of interest that there’s a new kid on the block in accelerator land in the shape of 500 Global ’s new program in Georgia (the country, not the US state, for those at the back). And one of one of them was Georgia.