Crunchbase News

MARCH 18, 2025

By Michael Tefula VC firms receive thousands of pitch decks a year and a typical investor will spend no more than two to three minutes assessing each one, according to data from DocSend. Ultimately, only 5%-10% of decks turn into meetings while the rest fade into a rejection pile. Michael Tefula of Ada Ventures As a pre-seed investor, Ive screened thousands of decks and also automated part of the process with an AI tool founders can use to get rapid feedback.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Some AI experts have downplayed the technologys potential to replace employees and reduce payrolls, but many IT leaders have a different vision, with more than half saying they expect AI will enable their organizations to cut jobs. Fifty-three percent of IT leaders surveyed for the 2025 AI Priorities Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry say they believe AI capabilities will enable reductions in their organizations workforces.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 18, 2025

In the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, patients often find themselves navigating a maze of complex medical information, seeking answers to their questions and concerns. However, accessing accurate and comprehensible information can be a daunting task, leading to confusion and frustration. This is where the integration of cutting-edge technologies, such as audio-to-text translation and large language models (LLMs), holds the potential to revolutionize the way patients receive, process, and

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

At Nvidia GTC 2025 in San Jose today, Deloitte announced Zora AI, a new agentic AI platform that offers a portfolio of AI agents for finance, human capital, supply chain, procurement, sales and marketing, and customer service. The platform draws on Deloittes experience from its technology, risk, tax, and audit businesses, and is integrated with all major enterprise software platforms.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 18, 2025

As generative AI adoption accelerates across enterprises, maintaining safe, responsible, and compliant AI interactions has never been more critical. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards that help organizations build generative AI applications with industry-leading safety protections. With Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, you can implement safeguards in your generative AI applications that are customized to your use cases and responsible AI policies.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 18, 2025

SQL is one of the key languages widely used across businesses, and it requires an understanding of databases and table metadata. This can be overwhelming for nontechnical users who lack proficiency in SQL. Today, generative AI can help bridge this knowledge gap for nontechnical users to generate SQL queries by using a text-to-SQL application. This application allows users to ask questions in natural language and then generates a SQL query for the users request.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Productivity is one of the key benefits enterprises expect from AI. IT leaders developing IT strategies commonly cite routine task automation and content simplification as two of their top priorities. Research by Foundry showed that improving employee productivity was the most cited business objective driving AI investments (48%). [1] But as businesses seek to realize these benefits, the technology debate is extending beyond data and algorithms to another crucial piece of the overall puzzle: the

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 18, 2025

In my world, chocolate and coffee are two of the main substances that make life worth living. So its a big deal to see tighter supplies and higher prices for both commodities. Chocolate lovers in particular felt sticker shock this year after a December surge in cocoa prices prompted confectionary makers to charge more for their treats. Higher costs come as Ghana and Cte dIvoire, the West African nations that provide most of the world’s cocoa supply, face deteriorating yields due to crop di

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

At Nvidia GTC 2025 in San Jose today, Nvidia launched a new family of open reasoning AI models for building agentic AI platforms. The company has post-trained its new Llama Nemotron family of reasoning models to improve multistep math, coding, reasoning, and complex decision-making. The enhancements aim to provide developers and enterprises with a business-ready foundation for creating AI agents that can work independently or as part of connected teams.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 18, 2025

Slow times for startup exits are looking like a thing of the past. The past two weeks have brought a flurry of big-ticket M&A deals and IPO filings. The action culminated today with Google s announcement of a planned $32 billion acquisition of cloud security unicorn Wiz. If consummated, Googles purchase would represent the largest acquisition of a private, venture-backed U.S. company ever, and by a long shot.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax. In an experiment, generative AI (genAI) outperformed doctors at crafting empathetic patient communications. I recently completed another in which genAI outperformed a journalist at displaying empathy for average Americans. Though Im not surprised by AI-uber-skeptic Ed Zitrons criticism of the business of genAI in a blog titled There Is No AI Revolution , I was taken aback by what he had to say about its value to people in general [emphas

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InnovationM

MARCH 18, 2025

In our ever-evolving journey toward building smarter, more reliable AI systems, one concept has proven indispensable: epochs. At its core, an epoch represents one complete pass over the entire training dataseta cycle in which our model learns from every available example. As a team that thrives on innovation and continuous improvement, weve developed strategies to optimize the number of epochs in our training pipelines, ensuring that our models not only learn efficiently but also generalize well

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

AI-infused applications such as Microsoft Copilot + PCs are transforming the workforce by automating routine tasks and personalizing employee experiences. According to Foundrys 2024 Tech Priorities study, 89% of IT decision-makers have reported researching, piloting, or deploying AI-enabled technologies. [1] However, expanding AI within organizations comes with challenges, including high per-seat licensing costs, increased network loads from cloud-based services, environmental impacts from energ

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MARCH 18, 2025

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

At Adobe Summit in Las Vegas today, Adobe unveiled Agent Orchestrator, a new capability for Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) to supervise AI agents, whether from Adobe or third-party ecosystems. It also introduced 10 new agents built on the capability. With this addition to AEP, Adobe wants to make the platform the data foundation that helps customers build and manage AI agents that can interpret goals, create plans, and take action to support marketers and creatives.

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Dataiku

MARCH 18, 2025

RAG chatbots are one of the most highly adopted GenAI use cases in enterprises around the world. However, organizations are discovering that building truly effective GenAI applications requires more than connecting an LLM to a document store. Indeed, critical blockers persist. For example, when you try to add a PDF report with embedded graphs and tables into a traditional RAG pipeline, the LLM can fail to retrieve the information accurately.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

For IT and support teams, a well-maintained knowledge base is the foundation of efficient service management. An extensive knowledge repository enables employees to quickly find answers to issues, thereby reducing downtime and improving productivity. When current, accurate knowledge is stored, categorized, and easily accessible, IT and support teams can avoid reinventing the wheel, ensuring that best practices and proven solutions are reused instead of being rediscovered repeatedly and inefficie

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 18, 2025

Google parent Alphabet Inc. agreed to acquire cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. for $32 billion in cash, reaching a deal less than a year after initial negotiations fell apart because the cloud-computing startup wanted to stay independent. Wiz will join the Google Cloud business once the deal closes, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. […] The post Google Agrees to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $32 Billion appeared first on OODAloop.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

The cybersecurity threats that loom large today look different than those even just a few years ago. Likewise, the way cybersecurity threats manifest in the years to come is all but certain to evolve. For businesses of every size and industry, especially those that depend on mainframe systems to operate, staying ahead of security threats is essential.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 18, 2025

Malicious ClickFix code was found on the websites of over 100 car dealerships. A malicious actor infected LES Automotive, which is a shared video service unique to car dealerships. The supply chain attack then impacted the car dealerships through the third-party domain. In ClickFix attacks, a prompt is displayed to the user asking them to […] The post 100 Car Dealerships Hit by Supply Chain Attack appeared first on OODAloop.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 18, 2025

Writing a book is the best thing a thought leader can do to raise their authority in their field. Here is a step-by-step guide to making your book a reality. Todays post is by Zach Obront, co-founder of Scribe Media. Melissa Gonzalez was frustrated. As an expert in the field of pop-up retail, she worked with companies like Marc Jacobs, Chanel, and Google to create incredible short-term retail experiences.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 18, 2025

Denmark is warning of state-sponsored espionage against the telecommunications sector in Europe. The country is warning that the high-profile breaches against telecommunications organizations in the U.S. were not isolated, and are part of a broader pattern. A report was published assessing cyber threats to the Danish telecommunications sector, raising the threat level to High after […] The post Denmark warns of cyber espionage against telecom sector appeared first on OODAloop.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 18, 2025

One of the biggest problems in digital product development today is the failure to collaborate with InfoSec or DevSecOps teams. Unfortunately, threats are ubiquitous and increasingly sophisticated. But did you know that there is a way to reduce the time spent remediating security issues by up to 50%? In 2016, the State of DevOps Report published its research indicating that high-performing teams spent less than half the time fixing security issues compared to low-performing teams.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 18, 2025

Last Wednesday, Google made a somewhat surprising announcement. It launched a version of its AI model, Gemini, that can do things not just in the digital realm of chatbots and internet search but out here in the physical world, via robots. Gemini Robotics fuses the power of large language models with spatial reasoning, allowing you […] The post When you might start speaking to robots appeared first on OODAloop.

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Perficient

MARCH 18, 2025

Introduction to Copilot Agents In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, efficiency and productivity are paramount. Customizing AI to meet your business needs is key to maintaining a competitive edge. Enter Copilot Agents specialized intelligent AI assistants designed to streamline workflows by automating repetitive tasks, providing actionable insights, and seamlessly integrating with your existing tools and data sources.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 18, 2025

A cybercriminal group, RansomHub, is working with another threat actor to deliver its ransomware. The group is working with the malicious actor behind the FakeUpdates malware-as-a-service (MaaS) framework. The attacks are being perpetrated against U.S. government organizations. The attacks began to be detected at the start of this year against the U.S. government.

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MARCH 18, 2025

U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a bipartisan bill supporting the cybersecurity of small water and wastewater utilities. The bill would expand the existing Circuit Rider Program, which provides technical assistance to water systems serving 10,000 or less people. The senators who reintroduced the legislation stated that only 20% of U.S. water and wastewater systems are currently […] The post US Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Boost Rural Water Cybersecurity appeared first on OODAloop.

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