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How To Build A Capital-Efficient Startup For Long-Term Value

Crunchbase News

By Aashish Mehta In todays startup landscape, raising venture capital is often treated as a milestone proof that a company is gaining traction. But after building and exiting multiple ventures, Ive come to see things differently. While, depending on the industry, VC funding can unlock important resources and mentorship, its not the only path to success, and often not the most sustainable one.

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Pump Up the Praise: Fun Employee Appreciation on a Budget

Let's Grow Leaders

Employee Appreciation on a Budget? Bring the Balloons So you’re bringing your team together and want to include a bit of employee appreciation. Maybe its been a while. You want to start stronggood energy, some connection, perhaps even a little fun. And you definitely want to recognize the great stuff your team has been doing. But your budget? Its the kind of budget that says, What if we just clap enthusiastically?

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Elon Musk’s xAI partners with messaging app Telegram in $300 million Grok deal

Ooda Loop

Elon Musks startup xAI is paying the Dubai-based messaging platform Telegram $300 million to roll out its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced in a post on Wednesday. Durov said he and Musk struck a year-long partnership that strengthens Telegrams financial position. In addition to the $300 million payment from xAI, Telegram […] The post Elon Musks xAI partners with messaging app Telegram in $300 million Grok deal appeared first on OODAloop.

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What ROI? AI misfires spur CEOs to rethink adoption

CIO

Nearly three years after the release of ChatGPT kicked off a new revolution, consistent AI ROI remains elusive. Just 25% of AI initiatives in recent years have lived up to ROI expectations, according to CEOs surveyed by the IBM Institute for Business Value. Meanwhile, organizations have achieved enterprise-wide rollouts with only 16% of AI projects.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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A Neuroscientific Approach to Teams and Agile Mindsets

Agile42

While preparing this article, I considered my multiple roles. Consultant, trainer, Agile coach, Team and Leader coach, Neuroscience student, researcher, team member. These are the hats I’ve worn and loved throughout my nearly 30 years of work experience. In my work, I’ve preferred to add value by synthesizing ideas and sharing experiences after testing them against scientific and practical realities.

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How Rufus doubled their inference speed and handled Prime Day traffic with AWS AI chips and parallel decoding

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, but their widespread adoption has been blocked by high inference latency, limited throughput, and high costs associated with text generation. These inefficiencies are particularly pronounced during high-demand events like Amazon Prime Day, where systems like Rufusthe Amazon AI-powered shopping assistantmust handle massive scale while adhering to strict latency and throughput requirements.

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Are CIOs buckling under the weight of expectation to deliver business value?

CIO

Modern CIOs are expected to contribute to areas that stretch far beyond the confines of the traditional IT organization. The board might have previously looked to other executives for the lead on strategy, value, and commercial growth, but modern CIOs must step up and take responsibility for areas once assumed by other business leaders. In fact, Gartners 2024 CIO Agenda survey highlights how 80% of CIOs have expanded their role , with 18% leading non-IT functions.

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AI First Puts Humans First

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While I prefer AI native to describe the product development approach centered on AI that were trying to encourage at OReilly, Ive sometimes used the term AI first in my communications with OReilly staff. And so I was alarmed and dismayed to learn that in the press, that term has now come to mean using AI to replace people. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity.

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The Urgent Call for Responsible AI: Why We Can’t Afford to Wait – Part 1

Perficient

The digital tide of Generative AI is sweeping across the globe, reshaping industries, revolutionizing creativity, and promising a future brimming with unimaginable possibilities. From crafting compelling prose to composing intricate melodies, from designing breathtaking visuals to simulating complex realities, Generative AI has moved from the realm of science fiction into our everyday lives with astonishing speed.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Data Quality and Data Observability: Why You Need Both

Actian

As data becomes more central to decision making, two priorities are taking precedence for data leaders: data quality and data observability. Each plays a distinct role in maintaining the reliability, accuracy, and compliance of enterprise data. When used together, data quality and data observability provide a powerful foundation for delivering trustworthy data for AI and other use cases.

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Land O’Lakes rewrites the rules of product-based data alignment

CIO

The benefits of a product operating model are now well established. Organizations that shift from project- to product-based IT achieve tighter collaboration between business and technology, orienting autonomous, empowered teams around business capabilities to deliver direct business impact. In pursuit of those outcomes, many organizations embed a business lead within each product team, someone responsible for shaping roadmaps, evaluating throughput, and dialing up resources when supply fails to

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A practical guide to creating Slowly Changing Dimensions Type 2 in dbt | Part 1

Xebia

Many companies are using the Kimball dimensional modelling framework to model their data and will undoubtedly think of, or are already using Slowly Changing Dimensions Type 2 (SCD2) models. It is one of the most common approaches to model historical data for analytical purposes. It is so common that today’s most popular analytics engineering tool dbt (data build tool) has had the ability to create SCD2 models since 2016 (!).

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I changed 12 settings on my Android phone to give it an instant battery boost

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Goodbye, battery anxiety. These 12 expert vetted tips will help you get the most out of your Android phone's battery life.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

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.

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How To Use Airbyte, dbt-teradata, Dagster, and Teradata Vantageâ„¢ for Seamless Data Integration

Teradata

Skip to main content Support Global Global Deutschland France 日本 대한민국 Why Teradata Our platform Getting started Insights About us search Try for free Contact us search Join us at Possible 2025. Register now Join us at Possible 2025. Register now Home Insights Data platform Article How To Use Airbyte, dbt-teradata, Dagster, and Teradata Vantage™ for Seamless Data Integration Build and orchestrate a data pipeline in Teradata Vantage using Airbyte, D

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AI regulation in the US is heating up, but keeping up will become harder

CIO

Responsible AI is getting a lot of buzz. With policy conversations around the deregulation of AI, weve been led to believe that ethical practices are falling on enterprises, as they largely have since the inception of the technology. This, however, is wrong. The days of AI washing are coming to an end. And while we may see lags in federal oversight, thats not the case for state and local governments.

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Securely Store API, Bearer and Auth Tokens with Platform Cache

Perficient

Imagine you are retrieving an API key/Bearer token from an external system to make a new callout to another external system. But there is one issue: you cannot determine when the new callout will take place, so you need to store the token value somewhere in your org for later use. Probably you will be thinking of storing it in your custom object or custom metadata.

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AI developers should be philosophers as much as technologists

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MIT research finds that philosophy is what truly determines AI success.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Are data spaces the future?

Capgemini

Are data spaces the future? Peter Kraemer, Phil Fuerst, Debarati Ganguly Mar 5, 2025 Facebook Linkedin Europe is building a data-driven economy in a changing geopolitical context. As it strives for both innovation and sovereignty, decentralized ecosystems offer a way to create value with data, while safeguarding freedom of choice. Data has the potential to transform processes, businesses, economies, and society by unlocking new kinds of value creation.

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SAP teams up with Alibaba to host Cloud ERP workloads in China

CIO

SAP has a big new customer in China that, it hopes, will also help it do business there. Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant and cloud computing infrastructure provider, is adopting SAPs Cloud ERP Private for its own enterprise infrastructure, and the companies plan to jointly sell their services. Together, SAP and Alibaba will help enterprises implement SAP Integrated Business Planning and deploy SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Cloud ERP Private suites on Alibabas cloud infrastructure, according

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In May: AI Shoplifting Prevention, Smart Irrigation And Helping Startups Shut Down

Crunchbase News

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 April entry here. We thought we might be able to write this column and include some startups not related to AI, but that turned out to be too difficult. Every under-the-radar funded company that caught our eye in May relied heavily on artificial intelligence, whether that was to help farms reduce water usage, trucking companies deploy fleets more efficient

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96% of IT pros say AI agents are a security risk, but they're deploying them anyway

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The same capabilities that make agents much more powerful than traditional chatbots also make them much bigger potential liabilities.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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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Cortex XDR Named 2025 Gartner Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Security

Palo Alto Networks

Highest Willingness to Recommend Score of All Gartner Customers Choice Vendors For cybersecurity professionals evaluating new technologies, there's nothing more illuminating than the real-world experiences of peers who defend against threats every single day. The 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of Customer Report captures this practical reality with insight spanning hundreds of companies worldwide.

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Avery Dennison takes culture-first approach to AI transformation

CIO

Avery Dennisons culture-first approach to AI adoption has paid off considerably in productivity and financial gains for the global labeling and RFID solutions manufacturer. The companys program to drive AI use throughout the enterprise, emphasizing humans in the loop, engaged more than 250 company executives and 1,000 employees in over 20 AI pilot projects in 2024.

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100 Ballistic Missiles, Rocket Launchers. What North Korea Gave Russia

Ooda Loop

Between September 2023 and December 2024 North Korea gave Russia over 100 ballistic missiles and as much as nine million rounds of ammunition to support various weapons systems, including artillery shells and rockets, for use in Moscow’s war against Ukraine, an 11-member international watchdog monitoring sanctions against Pyongyang said Thursday.

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Build a Data Mesh Architecture Using Teradata VantageCloud on AWS

Teradata

Skip to main content Support Global Global Deutschland France 日本 대한민국 Why Teradata Our platform Getting started Insights About us search Try for free Contact us search Join us at Possible 2025. Register now Join us at Possible 2025. Register now Home Insights Artificial Intelligence Article Build a Data Mesh Architecture Using Teradata VantageCloud on AWS Explore how to build a data mesh architecture using Teradata VantageCloud Lake as the core data plat

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

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.

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Bridging UI, DevOps, and AI: A Full-Stack Engineer’s Approach to Resilient Systems

Dzone - DevOps

Modern full-stack engineering isnt confined to just coding a front-end and back-end its about bridging the user interface (UI), DevOps processes, and artificial intelligence (AI) into one cohesive, resilient system. A full-stack engineer today might design an Angular UI, implement a Node.js API, set up CI/CD automation, and even integrate an AI-powered feature all with an eye toward scalability and reliability.

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This hidden Google Earth slider lets you travel up to 80 years back in time. Here's how to try it

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Ever wonder what your street looked like in the 1980s - or even the 30s? With Google Earth's historical imagery feature, you can view almost any location as it would've appeared throughout time.

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Revolutionizing earth observation with geospatial foundation models on AWS

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Emerging transformer-based vision models for geospatial dataalso called geospatial foundation models ( GeoFMs )offer a new and powerful technology for mapping the earths surface at a continental scale, providing stakeholders with the tooling to detect and monitor surface-level ecosystem conditions such as forest degradation, natural disaster impact, crop yield, and many others.

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