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6 places where investors look for problems when you’re fundraising

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They have a basic accounting system, know how to construct a budget and have policies and procedures for accounts receivable and accounts payable. During due diligence, every investor is looking for an accurate view of your business performance, value and potential. It pays to be ready. What investors want to know.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

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Cyber attacks and data breaches can wreak havoc on a business’ IT systems, resulting in massive costs to fix the damage and a long-lasting impact on customers that could hamper a company’s growth for years to come. But what exactly does this policy mean for IT security? And how can businesses ensure they’re ready? What is DORA?

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

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It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says.

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CIOs eager to scale AI despite difficulty demonstrating ROI, survey finds

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CIOs were least likely to identify as AI-ready business areas such as new product lines (22% of respondents), corporate policy on ethical AI use (24%), or their supply chain (26%) as the least AI-ready, while 49% rated their IT departments’ own technical skills as AI-ready. It can throw your entire delivery system into meltdown,” he said. “It

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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

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Although progress is being made that should be recognized and celebrated, Dan West, CDIO for Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland’s Department of Health, understands that the pandemic still casts a lingering shadow over national health and care systems, contributing to continuing rampant fatigue among staff and subsequent strikes over pay.

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A look at the budding market for the text that prompts AI systems

TechCrunch

Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. But not every company or developer has the budget to hire a so-called prompt engineer. Move over, software.

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Reinforcement Learning for Budget Constrained Recommendations

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by Ehtsham Elahi with James McInerney , Nathan Kallus , Dario Garcia Garcia and Justin Basilico Introduction This writeup is about using reinforcement learning to construct an optimal list of recommendations when the user has a finite time budget to make a decision from the list of recommendations.

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