Crunchbase News

MARCH 20, 2025

In an era where artificial intelligence can generate hyper-realistic deepfakes, companies monetize biometric data, and athletes fight for their rights under name, image and likeness, or NIL, contracts, a fundamental question emerges: Do we truly own our own faces? We all see our personal identity as sacrosanct, but the pace at which technology is evolving and the legal system desperately trying to catch up challenges our assumption.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

As Middle Eastern countries accelerate digital transformation through smart cities, AI adoption, and giga-projects, cybersecurity threats are evolving faster than defenses can keep up. In an exclusive interview with Abdul Ghaffar Setareh, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zain Group, he paints a stark picture of the regions cyber battleground: AI-powered ransomware, 300 Gbps DDoS attacks, and hackers exploiting supply chain loopholes to target critical infrastructure.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of generative AI solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023. The McKinsey 2023 State of AI Report identifies data management as a major obstacle to AI adoption and scaling. Enterprises generate massive volumes of unstructured data, from legal contracts to customer interactions, yet extracting meaningful insights remains a challenge.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

At a press conference held in Seoul on March 20, SAP CEO Christian Klein personally introduced the Korean market to SAPs AI-specific services, describing how SAPs AI vision can help Korean companies realize theirs. Samsung, LG, and other top 10 conglomerates in Korea are SAP customers, and many excellent customers in Korea are using SAP to enhance their global competitiveness, said Klein.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Today we are announcing that general availability of Amazon Bedrock in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. Companies of all sizes face mounting pressure to operate efficiently as they manage growing volumes of data, systems, and customer interactions. Manual processes and fragmented information sources can create bottlenecks and slow decision-making, limiting teams from focusing on higher-value work.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 20, 2025

As an investor, SoftBank is known for going big. That mentality came across clearly Wednesday evening, when the storied tech dealmaker announced it will acquire chip design company Ampere Computing , in a $6.2 billion cash transaction. Under terms of the deal, Ampere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group. Founded in 2017, Silicon Valley-based Ampere designs high-performance AI chips based on the Arm compute platform.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Heres the secret to success in todays competitive business world: using advanced expertise and deep data to solve real challenges, make smarter decisions and create lasting value. Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are paving the way for this evolution. AI practitioners and industry leaders discussed these trends, shared best practices, and provided real-world use cases during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 20, 2025

I still remember the day our CTO walked into the engineering huddle and declared, "We're moving everything to Kubernetes." It was 2017, and like many teams caught in the container hype cycle, we dove in headfirst with more excitement than wisdom. What followed was a sobering 18-month journey of steep learning curves, 3 AM incident calls, and the gradual realization that we'd traded one set of operational headaches for another.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Oracle has added a new AI Agent Studio to its Fusion Cloud business applications, at no additional cost, in an effort to retain its enterprise customers as rival software vendors ramp up their agent-based offerings with the aim of garnering more market share. The introduction of the AI Agent Studio reflects the need for every major enterprise application platform to have its own set of agents as it has become a necessity in 2025 for any enterprise platform that seeks to remain relevant in a gene

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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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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Asure , a company of over 600 employees, is a leading provider of cloud-based workforce management solutions designed to help small and midsized businesses streamline payroll and human resources (HR) operations and ensure compliance. Their offerings include a comprehensive suite of human capital management (HCM) solutions for payroll and tax, HR compliance services, time tracking, 401(k) plans, and more.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Global competition is heating up among large language models (LLMs), with the major players vying for dominance in AI reasoning capabilities and cost efficiency. OpenAI is leading the pack with ChatGPT and DeepSeek, both of which pushed the boundaries of artificial intelligence. Amid this AI arms race, OpenAIs latest trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) shows that the organization has other goals beyond LLMs.

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Tenable

MARCH 20, 2025

Protecting your cloud environment for the long term involves choosing a security partner whose priorities align with your needs. Here's what you need to know. As organizations embrace multi-cloud and hybrid environments, the complexity of securing that landscape increases. However, the overlooked risks may not come solely from threat actors. Choosing a security provider that has conflicting priorities can also introduce risk.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Women remain underrepresented in technology roles and have, in fact, lost ground in recent decades. According to the US Department of Labor, women held 24% of positions in the computer occupations sector at the end of 2022, down from a high of 44% in 1990. The 2024 State of the Tech Workforce from IT training and certification association CompTIA noted a similar gender gap in the field, finding that women make up just 27% of tech occupations.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 20, 2025

With Klarna now on tap for a public offering, the question arises: Who could be next? Turns out theres a pretty fat pipeline of venture-backed fintech startups that meet the basic criteria for an IPO. The list of likeliest suspects, however, includes many familiar names that have so far resisted the call of the public markets. To illustrate, we used Crunchbase s new forecasting tools to curate a list of a dozen venture-backed financial services startups that have generated buzz as potential IPO

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Rugby in Japan is supported by three main organizations: the JRFU, the general incorporated association Japan Rugby League One (JRLO), and Japan Rugby Marketing, which handles fan engagement. As head of the JRFUs media business division, Yutaka Muroguchi has contracts with all three organizations, and is in charge of video management and broadcasting rights.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 20, 2025

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. For the past few years, venture capitalists have bemoaned a lack of liquidity in the industry as the IPO pipeline froze and M&A dealmaking slowed. Well, the IPO pipeline is still fairly chilled, but if the past few weeks are any indication, dealmaking when it comes to AI-related startups may be about to take off.

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John Snow Labs

MARCH 20, 2025

The new models are optimized specifically for clinical reasoning, can verbalize their chain of thought, and apply medically recommended planning and decision-making processes John Snow Labs, the AI for healthcare company, today announced Medical LLM Reasoner, the first commercially available healthcare-specific reasoning large language model (LLM) to date.

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 20, 2025

As drones continue to reshape the nature of warfare, the limitations on range and power are becoming the difference between success and defeat on the battlefield. Now, an Israel-based drone company and U.S. manufacturing company Mach Industries are working together to co-produce hydrogen fuel cell powered drones, which offer big advantages in range but have […] The post Military hydrogen-cell drones poised for big takeoff appeared first on OODAloop.

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InnovationM

MARCH 20, 2025

As Business Analysts (BAs), one of our most critical tasks is managing and defining requirements for various projects in one go. Among the many challenges we face, one of the most crucial is requirement prioritization. A well-organized set of requirements will also ensure that engineers, programmers, and database analysts build the most essential components of a project in accordance with business objectives.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 20, 2025

Microsofts recently revealed quantum computer was dealt another blow this week, as data presented by the firm at the worlds biggest annual gathering of physicists failed to convince researchers that the device works as advertised. Thanks for waking up early and coming out today. I appreciate you all in the back, said Chetan Nayak at […] The post Microsofts quantum computer hit with criticism at key physics meeting appeared first on OODAloop.

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Infinidat

MARCH 20, 2025

Revisiting Herzogs Dirty Dozen: The Progress Report - Part 1 Adriana Andronescu Thu, 03/20/2025 - 08:21 I introduced Herzogs Dirty Dozen two-and-a-half years ago to shine a light on the challenges that enterprises face in their data infrastructure. The Dirty Dozen is a list of challenges, gaps, misconceptions and problems that keep CxOs, storage administrators, and other IT leaders up at night, worried about what they dont know.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 20, 2025

OpenAI is a startup, which means we dont have real data about the business. At the same time, OpenAI is clearly one of the defining companies of this era, and potentially historically significant. We cover all of this and more, including: Altmans background, the OpenAI origin story, and the genesis of ChatGPT, which changed everything. […] The post An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company appeared first on OODAloop.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 20, 2025

Last week marked the inaugural HumanX conference, a convening of leaders, technologists, policy makers, and media, all brought together to discuss the state of AI and its potential impact on the future of software, business, and society. Christine Yen, Honeycomb CEO and Co-founder, joined Bin Ni, Head of AI Developer Assistant at Google, Brian Goffman, Senior Advisor on AI at McKinsey, Jason Johnson, Co-founder of Doma Home, and Darrell Etherington,Founding Editor at The Angle, to explore the fu

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 20, 2025

Every time you type a question into ChatGPT, you are, probably without knowing it, making several monopolies richer. Actually, its no different if you use one of ChatGPTs many competitors. Nearly all of them use chips from Nvidia Corp., which sells around 92% of the particular components called artificial intelligence accelerators that make […] The post How the AI Boom Created the Most Valuable Monopolies in History appeared first on OODAloop.

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Perficient

MARCH 20, 2025

Continuing Our Plop.js Journey from last blog In our previous discussion, we explored an introduction to Plop.js and its installation in a Next.js project. Additionally, we looked at a basic skeleton of plopfile.js. Understanding the Components of plopfile.js As we saw earlier, the plopfile.js consists of key elements that define the generator. Lets break them down again for clarity: The setGenerator creates a generator of the plop.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 20, 2025

Mercedes-Benz is trialling using humanoid robots made by U.S.-based company Apptronik for tasks such as moving components to the production line or carrying out quality checks, the latest automaker to experiment with robots in manufacturing. The German company has invested a low double-digit million-euro sum in Apptronik, a Texas-based firm founded in 2016 that is […] The post Mercedes-Benz takes stake in robotics maker Apptronik, tests robots in factories appeared first on OODAloop.

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Perficient

MARCH 20, 2025

We all may have come across this situation countless times in our projectscopying and pasting files just to create a new component, page, or service. Unfortunately, this slows us down and hampers our productivity by introducing errors into the workflow. However, there’s a solution! Plop.js is the answer to this problem, as it automates these tasks and allows us to focus on writing great code.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 20, 2025

According to CorPower Ocean, the WACE (Wave energy AI-based Control Enhancement) project, running until November 2025, aims to optimize performance and control strategies for wave energy converters (WECs). This follows CorPower Oceans recent 32 million Series B funding round to advance its technology towards commercialization. The investment came after its full-scale C4 device withstood record-breaking […] The post CorPower Ocean and NTNU join forces on AI-controlled wave energy tech appea

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