O'Reilly Media - Ideas
APRIL 22, 2025
For the past decade and a half, I’ve been exploring the intersection of technology, education, and design as a professor of cognitive science and design at UC San Diego. Some of you might have read my recent piece for O’Reilly Radar where I detailed my journey adding AI chat capabilities to Python Tutor , the free visualization tool that’s helped millions of programming students understand how code executes.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 21, 2025
In Q1 2025, we again saw investment in late-stage startups surge, while venture capitalists spent less money on seed- and early-stage startups globally. That continues a clear trend that has emerged from the Crunchbase dataset in recent quarters: Large, established startups are landing outsized deals and more money, while the youngest companies struggle with fewer investment dollars.
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Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 21, 2025
This Quick Gut Check That Can Save Your Team Hours of Rework You move fast. Decisions pile up. Calendars fill. But in the rush to deliver, its easy to overlook the moments that make or break real collaborationthe ones where people feel included, respected, and clear on whats happening and why. This simple collaboration checklist for leaders gives you a pause-and-reset moment before the next big move.
Next Level Blog
APRIL 23, 2025
A few weeks ago, I had breakfast with a friend who spent twenty years as a senior engineer at Intel. Ten years ago, Apple lured him away to build a new engineering team. Knowing Intel has lost roughly 67 % of its market cap in the last five yearswhile NVIDIA has sprinted aheadI asked him, What happened? He didnt hesitate. They wouldnt risk killing the x86 cash cow, so the world passed them by.
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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.
Honeycomb
APRIL 23, 2025
Part 2: Observability cost drivers and levers of control I recently wrote an update to my old piece on the cost of observability , on how much you should spend on observability tooling. The answer, of course, is its complicated. Really, really complicated. Some observability platforms are approaching AWS levels of pricing complexity these days. In last weeks piece, we talked about some of the factors that are driving costs up , both good and bad, and about whether your observability bill is (or
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AWS Machine Learning - AI
APRIL 22, 2025
In December, we announced the preview availability for Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing , which provides a single serverless endpoint to efficiently route requests between different foundation models within the same model family. To do this, Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing dynamically predicts the response quality of each model for a request and routes the request to the model it determines is most appropriate based on cost and response quality, as shown in the following figur
Crunchbase News
APRIL 25, 2025
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our March entry here. In a lot of places, April is not short on rain. It also was not short on interesting rounds to write about, so lets take a look at a handful you may have missed. Whats wrong, Fluffy? Telehealth has exploded in the past several years, likely expedited by the COVID pandemic and many of us not wanting to do something in-person that we can do
Kaseya
APRIL 24, 2025
Youve locked the doors. Youve installed the alarm. But what happens if the intruder still gets in? Thats the reality many MSPs face today. You may have robust solutions to prevent cyberthreats before they cause damage. However, if you cant recover your clients mission-critical workloads quickly, they will still be at risk of data loss, downtime and business disruption.
CIO
APRIL 23, 2025
In the race to build the smartest LLM, the rallying cry has been more data! That same mantra has made its way to company boardrooms, too. As businesses hurry to harness AI to gain a competitive edge, finding and using as much company data as possible may feel like the most reasonable approach. After all, if more data leads to better LLMs , shouldnt the same be true for AI business solutions?
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 25, 2025
Episode 300: What separates a leader people want to follow from one they just tolerateand could it be as simple as how you say, “Great job”? If you’re like most leaders, you’re juggling tasks, solving problems, and keeping your team afloatbut somewhere in the chaos, encouragement gets overlooked. And yet, your team is craving it.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 21, 2025
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. listed the challenges of ensuring export control compliance by its customers, months after the companys artificial intelligence silicon was found to have flowed to US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies Co. via intermediaries. TSMCs role in the semiconductor supply chain inherently limits its visibility and information available to it regarding the downstream use or […] The post TSMC Warns of Limits of Ability to Keep Its AI Chips From China appeared first
DevOps.com
APRIL 23, 2025
Endor Labs today added a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its platform, specifically trained to identify security defects in applications and suggest remediations.
CIO
APRIL 23, 2025
In a February survey conducted by 3GEM on behalf of SnapLogic, out of 1,000 IT decision makers and transformation leaders , half say large enterprises already use AI agents, with 32% planning to implement them within the year. It also showed that 92% of respondents expect AI agents to deliver meaningful business outcomes over the next 12 to 18 months, and 44% trust AI agents to do as good a job as a human while 40% actually trust the AI more.
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
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 25, 2025
You Scheduled Time to Focus: Workplace Distractions Laughed and Brought Snacks You cared out the time, turned off your notifications to remove workplace distractions. Maybe you’ve even gathered your team around a campfire (or at least a flip chart), and focused on what matters most. Strategy. Innovation. That MIT (Most Important Thing) youve been meaning to tackle.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 25, 2025
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the weeks top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest funding rounds of last week here. There may have been no big billion-dollar rounds this week, but there were lots of good-sized financings for a variety of startups.
DevOps.com
APRIL 23, 2025
Its no longer a question of if AI will change engineers roles it already has. The real question is, how can engineers amplify their impact in this new reality?Exploring what's next for engineers.
CIO
APRIL 25, 2025
Bank of America will invest $4 billion in AI and related technology innovations this year, but the financial services giants 7-year-old homemade AI agent, Erica, remains a key ROI generator , linchpin for customer and employee experience , and source of great pride today. Few used the term agent, let alone agentic AI , in 2018, but the bank built a team of software engineers, linguistic specialists, and banking experts to create the small language model, which has been tuned over the years using
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
John Snow Labs
APRIL 22, 2025
Enhancing Risk Adjustment Accuracy and Revenue Integrity with AI-Powered HCC Coding In April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2026 Medicare Advantage (MA) Rate Announcement, projecting a 5.06% average increase in payments to MA plans. Thats a notable jump from the 3.70% increase we saw in 2025. More than just a financial adjustment, this signals growing confidence in the Medicare Advantage modeland with it, growing expectations.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 22, 2025
Asias venture market continues to decline at an alarming rate , and its not just China weighing it down. Four of the top six venture markets in the region saw declines. Along with China, India, Singapore and Japan all sank lower. Only Israel and Japan saw upticks as the region continues to battle economic fluctuations, conflicts, geopolitical tensions and a possible trade war.
InnovationM
APRIL 24, 2025
How I Fell in Love with Shorebirds Flutter Code Push? A few weeks ago, I was tearing my hair out over a tiny bug in my Flutter appa misaligned button that was driving users nuts. Fixing it was easy, but the thought of waiting days for App Store approval? Pure torture. Then I stumbled across Shorebird , a tool that lets you beam Dart code updates straight to your app, no store hassle required.
CIO
APRIL 23, 2025
According to calculations by analysts from Apps Run The World (ARTW), SAP lost its market leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) to rival Oracle last year. As the market researchers explain , Oracle owes its new top position to the fast-growing Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP products for accounting, order management and other business-critical processes.
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.
Tenable
APRIL 21, 2025
Each Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this post, Tenable CSO Robert Huber shares practical advice on using an exposure management program to focus on risks that have business impact. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 25, 2025
By Sam Leon For founders, innovation is a necessity, but the financial burden of R&D activities can feel prohibitive when determining where to allocate funds. The R&D tax credit is a valuable tool designed to alleviate some of these costs. Introduced in 1981, it was made permanent in 2015 under the PATH Act, and it’s essential for many startups to fully understand how to leverage it.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
APRIL 22, 2025
This post is co-written with Saibal Samaddar, Tanushree Halder, and Lokesh Joshi from Infosys Consulting. Critical insights and expertise are concentrated among thought leaders and experts across the globe. Language barriers often hinder the distribution and comprehension of this knowledge during crucial encounters. Workshops, conferences, and training sessions serve as platforms for collaboration and knowledge sharing, where the attendees can understand the information being conveyed in real-ti
CIO
APRIL 22, 2025
The United Arab Emirates has taken a bold step by becoming the first country to officially use AI to help draft, review, and update its laws. Announced during a Cabinet meeting led by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the initiative introduced a new Regulatory Intelligence Office powered by an advanced AI system. This system will bring together federal and local laws, court rulings, government procedures, and public service data into one massive platform to track the real-time impact of law
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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.
Tenable
APRIL 22, 2025
Tenable Research discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and which we dubbed ConfusedComposer. The vulnerability could have allowed an identity with permission (composer.environments.update) to edit a Cloud Composer environment to escalate privileges to the default Cloud Build service account.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 21, 2025
By Gleb Budman A quiet revolution is on the horizon for the tech industry, but its future impact will be loud. Businesses have been trapped for too long within the walled gardens of traditional cloud providers, where high egress fees, limited options and unaffordable pricing are holding back their potential. They are seeking an open cloud: The freedom to choose storage from one provider, compute from another and specialized AI services from a third, all working together seamlessly without puniti
DevOps.com
APRIL 24, 2025
Cycode, this week, added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its application security posture management (ASPM) capable of monitoring code and offering remediation suggestions. In addition, the company is adding an ability to, in real-time, monitor continuous integration processes running in memory.
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