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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

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Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? And this group of CIOs, CTOs, and technical CEOs have strong favorites — books they turn to again and again for inspiration.

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AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models

TechCrunch

Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. Image Credits: AI2 Of course it is these companies’ prerogative, in the context of a fiercely competitive AI landscape, to guard the secrets of their models’ training processes.

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Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M

TechCrunch

The cash injection brings Adept’s total raised to $415 million, which co-founder and CEO David Luan says is being put toward productization, model training and headcount growth. ” Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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Efficient continual pre-training LLMs for financial domains

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. The resulting LLM outperforms LLMs trained on non-domain-specific datasets when tested on finance-specific tasks.

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Product School raises $25M in growth equity to scale its product training platform

TechCrunch

Product School provides certificates for individuals as well as team training, and says it has experienced an upwelling of business since COVID switched so many companies into digital ones. Product School has also produced the The Product Book , The Proddy Awards and ProductCon.

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Authors are losing their patience with AI, part 349235

TechCrunch

On Monday morning, numerous writers woke up to learn that their books had been uploaded and scanned into a massive dataset without their consent. A project of cloud word processor Shaxpir, Prosecraft compiled over 27,000 books, comparing, ranking and analyzing them based on the “vividness” of their language.

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5 Books for QA Engineers

Apiumhub

Hello, today I’d like to share some useful books for QA Professionals. Grab your cup of coffee and take some notes and tips from this software testing books. This is a book that should be read by all specialists, starting at the Junior level. The book can is a real classic. Nguyen, Jack Falk.