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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

TechCrunch

Online education tools continue to see a surge of interest boosted by major changes in work and learning practices in the midst of a global health pandemic. The funding will be used to continue investing in its platform to target more business customers. Now it’s time to build out a sales team to go after them.”

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Propensity Model: How to Predict Customer Behavior Using Machine Learning

Altexsoft

To help companies unlock the full potential of personalized marketing, propensity models should use the power of machine learning technologies. This post is going to shed light on propensity modeling and the role of machine learning in making it an efficient predictive tool. What is a propensity model?

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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Next Best Action Marketing: How to Implement Hyper-Personalization with Machine Learning

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll discuss what the next best action strategy is and how businesses define the next best action using machine learning-based recommender systems. The funnel for each customer is unique as each customer learns about a company or its services at their own pace and style. This changes the game for marketers.

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Merlyn Mind emerges from stealth with $29M and a hardware and software solution to help teachers with tech

TechCrunch

We’ve chronicled, in great detail, the many layers of technology, services and solutions that have been wrapped around the world of education in recent years — and especially in the last year, which became a high watermark for digital learning tools because of COVID-19.

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Counter AI Attacks with AI Defense

Palo Alto Networks

For example, they repurpose malware and often use off-the-shelf toolkits like CobaltStrike and Brute Ratel C4 to exploit weaknesses and take malicious actions with minimal effort. By leveraging machine learning techniques, threat actors can quickly identify weaknesses and launch targeted attacks at a large scale.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). A lot to learn, but worthwhile to access the unique and special value AI can create in the product space. Why AI software development is different.