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Seamless integration of AP automation and ERP is key to financial process excellence 

Cherry Work

Introduction: In the highly competitive business environment, presently the companies are under tremendous pressure to make their operations more efficient and increase efficiency, especially in the areas like accounts payable (AP). Today, Robotic Process Automation has become a common choice for automating the repetitive tasks, thus, automation technologies have been of great import in making the AP processes more efficient over the years.

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How to Fix ‘AI’s Original Sin’

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute. The Times also quoted Meta officials as saying that their models will not be able to keep up unless they follow OpenAI and Google’s lead.

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The Rise of Coding Assistants: Supercharging Developer Productivity

DevOps.com

The rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) coding assistants have sparked debates about the future of coding, with some even predicting doomsday for coders.

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Should We Really Be Worried Over Influence Campaigns?

Ooda Loop

In the runup to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, much attention has been placed on rampant influence campaigns emerging from U.S. adversaries like China, Iran, and Russia.

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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Generative AI’s killer enterprise app just might be ERP

CIO

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is ripe for a major makeover thanks to generative AI, as some experts see the tandem as a perfect pairing that could lead to higher profits at enterprises that combine them. The use of gen AI with ERP systems is still in its early days, but the combination is expected to provide several benefits, including helping employees create specialized ERP functionality on their own through code wizards, says Liz Herbert, a Forrester analyst and lead author of the report

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Recurring Conflict Conversations: How to Unstick Stuck Situations

Let's Grow Leaders

To prevent recurring conflict conversations, focus on commitment Do you ever get frustrated by conflict conversations that just won’t end? You think you’ve reached an agreement, and a few weeks later you’re back to the same Groundhog Day discussion. Your conversation needs to produce action, or nothing changes. And if nothing changes, it’s worse than if you never had a conversation.

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JavaScript needs more money

InfoWorld

There isn’t nearly enough money in open source today. We can complain about venture capitalists distorting open source licensing, wring our hands about sustainability , and fret over how much foundation execs like Mozilla’s make , but the real issue isn’t that we have too much money sloshing around GitHub repositories. It’s that there isn’t more. Much, much more.

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How to Set Date Time from Mac Command Line

David Walsh

Working on a web extension that ships to an app store and isn’t immediately modifiable, like a website, can be difficult. Since you cannot immediately deploy updates, you sometimes need to bake in hardcoded date-based logic. Testing future dates can be difficult if you don’t know how to quickly change the date on your local machine. To change the current date on your Mac, execute the following from command line: # Date Format: MMDDYYYY sudo date -I 06142024 This command does not modi

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Debugging Kubernetes: Troubleshooting Guide

Dzone - DevOps

As Kubernetes continues to revolutionize the way we manage and deploy applications, understanding its intricacies becomes essential for developers and operations teams alike. If you don't have a dedicated DevOps team you probably shouldn't be working with Kubernetes. Despite that, in some cases, a DevOps engineer might not be available while we're debugging an issue.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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European hospitals launch Microsoft-backed AI network to agree privacy guardrails

CIO

Artificial intelligence, it is widely assumed, will soon unleash the biggest transformation in health care provision since the medical sector started its journey to professionalization after the flu pandemic of 1918. The catch is that bringing this about will require new institutional channels for knowledge, engineering, and ethical collaboration that don’t yet exist.

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Supercharging Airflow & dbt with Astronomer Cosmos on Azure Container Instances

Xebia

Over the past few years, dbt has become the standard for data transformations. A very typical workflow now is to have some basic data extraction and ingestion take place, after which transformations are done in one or more dbt projects (a typical ELT (Extract-Load-Transform) workflow). Essentially, dbt, as advertised, takes care of the T in ETL/ELT/EtLT.

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Metaverse And Augmented Reality Remain Unpopular With VCs

Crunchbase News

The metaverse is not getting funded. That was the unsurprising finding from our latest data dive regarding investment in startups innovating around the metaverse, virtual reality and augmented reality. The space, which was significantly buzzier a few years ago, has apparently lost its cachet with VCs. Dwindling investment comes on the heels of disappointing adoption for the gear and leading metaverse platforms.

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Can AI Replace DevOps Engineers ?

DevOps.com

Let's figure out what AI does well, where it falls short, and whether DevOps professionals should fear it and start re-skilling today.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs

CIO

Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. Berke Menekli, VP of digital platform services, says it’s one of the best things he ever did. BSH’s previous infrastructure and operations teams, which supported the European appliance manufacturer’s application development groups, simply acted as suppliers of infrastructur

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Minimize Human-Computer Friction: How to start boosting your Productivity

Xebia

Have you ever noticed friction when interacting with your computer? Your thoughts move fast. But you just can’t seem to get your thoughts into the computer as fast as you like. You feel like you’re wasting time and energy. This can be very frustrating. But it doesn’t have to be this way! In this blogpost, we’ll share how you can minimize this friction and boost your productivity.

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Semiconductor Startup Funding Looks To Bounce Back After Lackluster 2023

Crunchbase News

Black Semiconductor was the latest chip startup to make headlines when it raised nearly $275 million — mainly from the German government — last week for its next-gen chip tech. It was just the latest sign of chip startups being able to raise big money as once again one of the most foundational technologies grab investors’ attention around the world, mainly thanks to AI.

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Generative AI for Farming

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We’re planning a live virtual event later this year, and we want to hear from you. Are you using a powerful AI technology that seems like everyone ought to be using? Here’s your opportunity to show the world ! AI is too often seen as a “first world” enterprise of, by, and for the wealthy. We’re going to take a look at a Digital Green ’s Farmer.Chat , a generative AI bot that was designed to help small-scale farmers in developing countries access critical agricultural information.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Microsoft bolsters quantum platform with gen AI, molecular simulation capabilities

CIO

Microsoft has added generative artificial intelligence and other enhanced features to its quantum-computing platform as part of a larger strategy to deliver the game-changing technology to a broader range of users — in this case, the scientific community. The company on Wednesday unveiled the release of Generative Chemistry and Accelerated DFT, which together expand how scientists in the chemicals and materials science industry can use its Azure Quantum Elements platform to help drastically shor

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The ever-changing role of Data Modeling

Xebia

Introduction In this blog post, we explore the evolution of data modeling from its early days of transactional databases to its role in enabling AI-driven insights today. We discuss the impact of technology advancements, cloud computing, and AI/ML applications’ rise in data modeling practices. As we intend for large language models (LLMs) to be able to query the data stored in our information systems, we need to enable our data models to generate queries that retrieve the right data for an

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Six Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In May, With xAI Alone Adding $24B In Value 

Crunchbase News

A total of six companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May, down from 10 new unicorns in April and eight in May 2023. AI and Web3 companies each counted two, and five of the six new unicorns are U.S.-based. The largest new entrant was xAI , which raised $6 billion and officially joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May 2024. The company was valued at $24 billion.

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Platform Engineering: The Evolution to DevOps-as-a-Service

DevOps.com

Platform engineering represents the evolution of DevOps into a more structured and service-oriented model, effectively embodying the principles of DevOps-as-a-service.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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Going ‘AI native’ with in-house ChatGPT the MITRE way

CIO

As a nonprofit R&D center for the US government, MITRE is no stranger to AI. Its researchers have long been working with IBM’s Watson AI technology, and so it would come as little surprise that — when OpenAI released ChatGPT based on GPT 3.5 in late November 2022 — MITRE would be among the first organizations looking to capitalize on the technology, launching MITREChatGPT a month later.

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Improving air quality with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

As of this writing, Ghana ranks as the 27th most polluted country in the world , facing significant challenges due to air pollution. Recognizing the crucial role of air quality monitoring, many African countries, including Ghana, are adopting low-cost air quality sensors. The Sensor Evaluation and Training Centre for West Africa (Afri-SET) , aims to use technology to address these challenges.

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Right Off The Batch: 50% Of YC W24 Is Built With AI. Who Got Funded?

Crunchbase News

Every cohort of Y Combinator startups “graduates” to great fanfare when the accelerator holds its closely watched demo days. But what happens next? Using Crunchbase data, we set out to track the funding trajectories of these seed- and pre-seed companies, starting with the very AI-centric winter 2024 batch , which wrapped up its demo day in early April.

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Survey Surfaces Extent of Web Application Security Crisis

DevOps.com

A survey of 349 U.S. and UK cybersecurity professionals finds that while 60% work for organizations that update web applications at least once a week nearly three-quarters (75%) test their web applications monthly or less often.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Team Liquid tackles esports data with AI

CIO

In the 2022 Spring Playoffs for multiplayer video game League of Legends, Team Liquid suffered a shocking 0-3 loss to rival team Evil Geniuses, which prevented it from moving on to the 2022 World Championships. “Out of nowhere, they pulled some counter picks [during the draft] that we just had no visibility on,” says Jesse Hart, senior director of sports science and analytics for Team Liquid.

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Use zero-shot large language models on Amazon Bedrock for custom named entity recognition

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Name entity recognition (NER) is the process of extracting information of interest, called entities , from structured or unstructured text. Manually identifying all mentions of specific types of information in documents is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. Some examples include extracting players and positions in an NFL game summary, products mentioned in an AWS keynote transcript, or key names from an article on a favorite tech company.

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Dell Precision Workstations Now Available with NVIDIA AI Enterprise Platform

Dell EMC

Bringing AI development from the data center to the deskside on Precision powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise Essentials.