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Microsoft offers Dynamics users fresh incentives to move to the cloud

CIO

Microsoft unveiled a new incentive program on Tuesday to help enterprises still running its Dynamics ERP and CRM software on premises to move to the cloud. Our customers and partners have been telling us that generative AI is giving them a new reason to move to the cloud.

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

CIO

British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. Historically, we’ve been more multicloud or hybrid cloud, with private services as well,” says Claire Dickson, DS Smith’s CIO.

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Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

TechCrunch

McKinsey expects the chemical and pharma industries to be the first potential users of quantum computing, enabling the accurate simulation of larger numbers of atoms and molecules, which is not possible today using classical supercomputers. As a result, quantum hardware manufacturers develop their own cloud-based operating systems.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

CIO

During COVID-19 lockdowns, for example, specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle developed a VPA to provide self-service assistance to over 7,000 employees at home, including a natural language interface with a chat bot, and enough AI to help people interface seamlessly with several business applications at a time. “All

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

CIO

It’s over five years since Dow Chemical merged with DuPont to form DowDuPont — and three since they split up again to form a new agricultural supplies company, Corteva; a specialist chemicals manufacturer, Dupont; and a supplier of commodity chemicals, Dow. Melanie Kalmar was Dow’s CIO through all of that. “It

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Molecule.one grows its drug synthesis AI platform with a $4.6M seed round

TechCrunch

Molecule.one creates a workflow starting with ordinary off-the-shelf chemicals and provides step by step instructions using known methods of how to go from A to B… and to C, D, and so on (it’s rarely simple). “In each move of this game, instead of moving a piece on a board, we break a chemical bond between a pair of atoms.

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Profet AI helps manufacturers build prediction models and industrial AI software

TechCrunch

They are intended for use by clients in the semiconductor, electronics, chemicals and textile manufacturing industries.

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