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How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-

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The White House’s new executive order, “ Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence ,” is poised to usher in a new era of national AI regulation, focusing on safety and responsibility across the sector. In contrast, US regulators must have a light touch with startups to maintain the country’s leadership position in innovation.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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What are some unique data and cybersecurity challenges when helming such a vast locomotion technology company? The largest budget proposals were made by railway ministers this year, under the leadership of Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Minister for Railways and Information Technology. What does sustainability look like for WABTEC ?

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5 C-suite bridges every IT leader must build

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That’s especially true when functional areas outside IT routinely buy their own technology and hire their own technology professionals, says Irving Tyler, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, and former CIO of Quaker Chemical and IMS Health. Happily for him, he says, Lewis has no hand in establishing cybersecurity policies.

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

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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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Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

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While a traditional microprocessor processes binary code, Seagate’s chip has tiny reservoirs that process small amounts of synthetic DNA in liquid form; liquid from one reservoir on the chip can be processed with liquid from another reservoir to produce a chemical reaction.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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CIO 100 award-winner Chris Nardecchia also wears multiple leadership hats in his role as senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest pure-play industrial automation and IoT company. That’s awakened people to say, ‘What do we do and how do we secure our supply chain?’

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

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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.