Crunchbase News
JUNE 27, 2024
So far, 2024 is shaping up as a not-so-shabby year for robotics startup funding. Developers of workplace robots, robotic surgery technologies, and even humanoid models have all raised large rounds in the past six months. The artificial intelligence funding boom has also helped boost the space, with investors backing big deals at the intersection of AI and robotics.
CIO
JUNE 24, 2024
Companies pour millions into AI initiatives, only to find themselves mired in pilot purgatory — endless cycles of testing and tweaking with no tangible results. It’s not enough to start strong; you need to finish with impact. The stakes are high but AI has the potential to revolutionize industries, driving unprecedented efficiencies, innovation, and growth.
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Dataiku
JUNE 26, 2024
Discover real-world use cases where a multimodal machine learning approach is valuable (and how Dataiku's framework can help your team use this technique).
Xebia
JUNE 27, 2024
OIDC (OpenID Connect) is a protocol that allows companies to streamline user experiences by centralizing accounts in one place. This allows better security and protection of privacy. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Auth0… provide OIDC Providers. It makes users’ lives easier by having only one username and password and those should be stored securely and thus are less susceptible to data leaks.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
InfoWorld
JUNE 24, 2024
When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer, Google Bard, and GitHub Copilot in June of 2023, CodeWhisperer could generate code in an IDE and did security reviews, but it lacked a chat window and code explanations. The current version of CodeWhisperer is now called Amazon Q Developer , and it does have a chat window that can explain code, and several other features that may be relevant to you, especially if you do a lot of development using AWS.
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Aqua Security
JUNE 26, 2024
For years, we’ve been educating developers not to hard-code secrets into their code. Now it turns out that even doing this once might permanently expose that secret, even after its apparent removal – and worse, most secrets scanning methods will miss it. Our research found that almost 18% of secrets might be overlooked.
InfoWorld
JUNE 25, 2024
Just like big data back in 2013 , we’re in the “everyone’s doing it, no one knows why” phase of generative AI (genAI). A recent McKinsey survey found that 65% of enterprises are “regularly using genAI.” Promising! In Elastic’s recent earnings call, the company noted that over 1,000 customers are paying to build genAI applications. Wow! Each of the big cloud companies, as well as Oracle, has talked up how genAI is driving cloud spend.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2024
Everyone struggles to manage their emotions at times. It’s normal to have negative feelings and we can’t expect ourselves – or others – to leave those behind just because we’re at work. But those negative emotions can be detrimental to our relationships, performance, focus, and overall well-being. So it’s worthwhile to hone our emotional intelligence skills that help us handle negative feelings.
CIO
JUNE 24, 2024
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), how can enterprises evaluate whether their existing data center design can fully employ the modern requirements needed to run AI? There are major considerations as IT leaders develop their AI strategies and evaluate the landscape of their infrastructure. This blog examines: What is considered legacy IT infrastructure?
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Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda
Agile Alliance
JUNE 28, 2024
The Clover Model guides Agile Coaches in bi-weekly one-on-one sessions with Scrum Masters, addressing structured agendas, personalized challenges, role fulfillment, team metrics, and continuous growth and training. The post Effective one-on-one coaching with the Clover Model first appeared on Agile Alliance.
DevOps.com
JUNE 24, 2024
A survey of 406 developers, software engineers, CTOs, CISOs and application security professionals finds that while the majority of respondents (80%) said their organization is ready to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to write code, the level of enthusiasm for these tools is far higher among C-level executives.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2024
Starbucks is struggling. It has strayed from its successful strategy of offering customers exceptional experiences and, in the process, has commoditized itself. This article analyzes where it went wrong and offers ideas for how the company can turn itself around. It holds lessons for other companies that compete by providing customers distinctive experiences.
CIO
JUNE 26, 2024
The University of Pennsylvania Health System had an enormous amount of anonymized patient data in its Penn Medicine BioBank, and SVP and CIO Michael Restuccia’s team saw an opportunity to use it to benefit the research hospital’s patients. “We had a conversation about how to take some of the innovation occurring in research around AI and deploy it in the clinics,” he says.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
Crunchbase News
JUNE 25, 2024
For the first four months of the year, it seemed like funding to autonomous driving startups — once a super hot sector — was slowly driving off a cliff. However, since then venture funding has kicked into another gear. Through April, less than $800 million was raised by startups in the autonomous driving industry, per Crunchbase data. However, since May 1 nearly $2.7 billion has come pouring into the sector — mainly through a handful of big deals that seem to show investor interest is not stuck
DevOps.com
JUNE 28, 2024
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a concept introduced by Google in 2004 and since then it has been adopted by various leading software organizations. In its purest form SRE is what you get when you treat operations like it is a software problem.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2024
The Internet and AI tools are transforming marketing communications within a complex, interactive landscape called the echoverse. While marketing has evolved since the proliferation of the Internet, in the echoverse, a diverse network of human and nonhuman actors — consumers, brands, AI agents, and more — continuously interact, influence, and reshape messages across digital platforms.
CIO
JUNE 28, 2024
MicroStrategy has added generative AI capabilities to HyperIntelligence, part of its One business intelligence platform, making it possible for workers to access data using natural language by asking questions from within any web application. The HyperIntelligence software uses a browser extension to turn keywords in web applications into pop-up “cards” containing key information that employees can consult on demand.
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Crunchbase News
JUNE 26, 2024
Low-code and no-code startups are not seeing the funding they did a couple of years ago, but it clearly has not dried up completely. Creatio achieved unicorn status after landing a $200 million round led by Sapphire Ventures , with participation from StepStone Group and current investors Volition Capital and Horizon Capital. The new cash, a minority investment, values the startup at $1.2 billion and will be used to help the company expand globally as it continues to grow revenue 50% year to year
DevOps.com
JUNE 25, 2024
Sapient.ai today launched a testing automation platform that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automatically creates unit tests as the applications are developed.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 27, 2024
In a well-functioning capital market, profits should be the sole criterion for firm survival; that is, firms reporting losses should disappear. Of late, however, loss-making firms are highly sought after by investors — often more than some profitable firms. Unicorns, or startups with valuations exceeding a billion dollars, are examples of such loss-making firms.
CIO
JUNE 27, 2024
Seven companies that license music, images, videos, and other data used for training artificial intelligence systems have formed a trade association to promote responsible and ethical licensing of intellectual property. The issue has become a concern for builders of generative AI models and the enterprises that use them, as some data sets used in AI training have legally and ethically uncertain origins.
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InfoQ Culture Methods
JUNE 28, 2024
As systems become larger and more complex we need to take the concepts of platform engineering to a higher level – to the code level – by creating platforms and abstractions that will reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and upgrades to the platform. Let’s move from “platform” to “Platform as a Runtime”.
DevOps.com
JUNE 28, 2024
The country’s top cybersecurity agency is continuing to urge software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages to help reduce the number of vulnerabilities in their products.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2024
Many companies build cultures that are focused on controlling the output of low performers, rather than growing and unlocking everyone’s skills. This approach is low-ROI and ultimately problematic for high-performance cultures. Leaders spend an inordinate amount of time handholding their least productive colleagues, instead of helping their strongest contributors move faster and do more.
CIO
JUNE 25, 2024
A growing number of workers worldwide are considering changing employers within the next year due to rising workloads and the rapid pace of technological change, surpassing the levels seen during the “Great Resignation” of 2022, a report by PwC said. The 2024 Global Workforce Hopes & Fears Survey , conducted among over 56,000 workers in 50 countries, revealed that a surprising 28% of respondents are likely to switch employers within the next year.
Speaker: Conrado Morlan
In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.
Crunchbase News
JUNE 24, 2024
It’s weird to say, but accounting is hot — at least in the startup world. Klarity became the latest accounting-related startup to raise big in the sector. The San Francisco-based company raised a $70 million Series B led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross and included participation from Scale Venture Partners , Tola Capital , Picus Capital , Invus Capital and Y Combinator — per a report in The Information.
DevOps.com
JUNE 28, 2024
Orca Security this week extended the reach of its cybersecurity portfolio to include an application that scans source code stored in GitHub and GitLab repositories for vulnerabilities.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2024
Two studies by the authors demonstrate that the presence of robust shareholder agreements in publicly traded family firms in France adds 18% in market value to shareholders because they protect shareholders against misuse of capital by groups of family members. This article describes the critical provisions in such agreements and presents data showing the impact of these provisions on market value.
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