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How Off-the-Shelf Tech Can Make Factories More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

Companies can see big financial benefits by utilizing existing data and simpler technologies to reduce waste, labor costs, overhead, and utility expenses. Too often, smaller companies are intimidated by the high costs, complexity, and long installation times that high-end smart factory systems can require. This is short-sighted.

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How to kick-start your generative AI strategy

CIO

When a technology this powerful comes along where you have to learn by doing, finding reasons not to do it is a pretty big error,” he says. These risks are things you have to worry about with any other large-scale database technology project—but they’re not terrifying, and you have a great deal to gain,” says McAfee. By not entering.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Everyone is running around trying to apply this technology that’s moving so fast, but without business outcomes, there’s no point to it,” says Redmond, CIO at power management systems manufacturer Eaton Corp. “We We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We We want to maintain discipline and go deep.”

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Know before you go: 6 lessons for enterprise GenAI adoption

CIO

That quote aptly describes what Dell Technologies and Intel are doing to help our enterprise customers quickly, effectively, and securely deploy generative AI and large language models (LLMs).Many Lesson 1: Don’t start from scratch to train your LLM model Massive amounts of data and computational resources are needed to train an LLM.

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Valence raises $25M to track team performance with continuous reviews

TechCrunch

Valence , a growing teamwork platform, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners. Co-founder and CEO Parker Mitchell said that the tranche will be used to triple the size of the company’s team to 75, expand its sales footprint (particularly in Europe), and build out Valence’s product team.

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

CIO

A general modernization path brings the technical assets together whereas an industry-focused initiative is more of a problem-solving, solutions-oriented design,” says Praveena Varadarajan, modernization offering leader and strategist for IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Migration Group. Consider the critical area of security controls, for example.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST Program Assesses How AI Systems Will Behave in the Real World, While FBI Has Troves of Decryption Keys for LockBit Victims

Tenable

1 - NIST program will test safety, fairness of AI systems Will that artificial intelligence (AI) system now in development behave as intended once it’s released or will it go off the rails? goes beyond assessments of system performance and accuracy, and aims instead at measuring what NIST calls “technical and societal robustness.”