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How prioritizing training and mentorship retains talent

CIO

It takes more than good benefits and pay to retain talent: A LinkedIn study found that companies have a nearly 7% higher retention rate at the 3-year mark with employees who have learned skills on the job. At Discover ® , on-the-job training and mentorship are key components of how Discover cultivates and nurtures talent from within.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” Studies have shown that digital literacy can reduce recidivism , or relapse into crime. ”

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AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models

TechCrunch

Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. Image Credits: AI2 Of course it is these companies’ prerogative, in the context of a fiercely competitive AI landscape, to guard the secrets of their models’ training processes.

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Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M

TechCrunch

The cash injection brings Adept’s total raised to $415 million, which co-founder and CEO David Luan says is being put toward productization, model training and headcount growth. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. Forbes reports that the valuation was “at least” $1 billion.

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5 Ways to Live and Study Web Development in Great Britain Next Summer

The Crazy Programmer

In a time of mass unemployment due to Covid-19, web development is the career of the future. Studying a web development course which teaches you an in-demand programming language is a great way to start a secure, pandemic-proof career in web development. Fire Tech Camp Teen Web Development Course.

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Cybrary secures $25M to grow its platform for cybersecurity training

TechCrunch

But some firms have escaped unscathed, like cybersecurity training platform Cybrary , which today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C funding round. Studies suggest the global cybersecurity workforce needs to grow 65% to effectively defend organizations’ critical assets. “There are an estimated 3.5 ”

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Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raises $100M

TechCrunch

Case in point, Replit, an IDE startup developing a code-generating AI-powered tool called Ghostwriter, this week raised nearly $100 million ($97.4 “We look forward to expanding our offerings for professional developers.” “We look forward to expanding our offerings for professional developers.”