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Shauntel Garvey of Reach Capital will join us to judge this year’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

Now we’re very excited to reveal one of the fine people who will be judging Startup Battlefield at this year’s all-virtual event in September: Shauntel Garvey, a general partner at Reach Capital, a VC specializing in the world of education technology. We’re really looking forward to her input as a Startup Battlefield judge.

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Startups will be competing for $100,000 in equity-free prize money and the attention of international press and top investors from around the world. With just over a 1.5%

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

TechCrunch

Generally Intelligent built a simulated research environment where AI agents — entities that act upon the environment — train by completing increasingly harder, more complex tasks inspired by animal evolution and infant development cognitive milestones. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent.

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5 C-suite bridges every IT leader must build

CIO

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. I talk to the CISO virtually every week, a lot of it on practical matters or class matters,” he says.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Getty Image has announced a generative image creation model that has been trained exclusively on images for which Getty owns the copyright. These robots have proved much more versatile and easier to train than previous robots. HuggingFace now offers Training Cluster as a Service. Pixel tracking means something different now.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

There are several takes on having avatar-filled meetings in virtual spaces. Facebook will stop using facial recognition technology and is deleting its face database, although it is keeping the model trained on that database. Virtual and Augmented Reality. You’d think they were coordinating with each other. AI, ML, and Robotics.

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How governments are using IT to shrink their carbon footprints

Capgemini

A digital twin is a virtual replica of a system (in this case, an IT system), which provides a team with an x-ray view into how it functions. Digital twins make it possible to experiment with changes virtually, before implementing them in real life, and they’re an outstanding tool for general understanding.