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AI touches everything, everywhere all at once at Disrupt

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In the past six months alone, TechCrunch has written nearly 600 articles focused on the impact of AI technology in our lives across industries as varied as film , healthcare , marketing and supply chains to name but a few. Like it or not, AI is part of our lives from here on out — for better or worse.

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

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After all, we in the information management and technology industry have talked at length about unstructured data since “Big Data” was big news more than a decade ago. Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc.

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Interactive streaming platform Adventr raises $5M in seed funding

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Adventr patented this voice-controlled technology, called “SmartListen,” which allows media content to change mid-stream based on voice commands. This could technology could be applied to advertisements, where a viewer can say something like “buy the green shirt.” ” to the star of a horror film.

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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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Maximum Effort was founded to help promote the actor’s first Deadpool film. The film raked in $783.1 million at the box office — a record for an R-rated film that held until the 2019 release of Joker. Reynolds and Dewey had come up with several low-budget spots to get people excited about an R-rated comic book movie.

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11 most in-demand gen AI jobs companies are hiring for

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Businesses are turning to gen AI to streamline business processes, develop proprietary AI technology, and reduce manual efforts in order to free up employees to take on more intensive tasks. Generative AI is quickly changing the landscape of the business world, with rapid adoption rates across nearly every industry.

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Humanize Your Leadership Brand to Impact, Influence and Inspire Others

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With the advent of social media, people started using technology aggressively to build their credibility and enhance visibility. There are celebrities including film stars, cricketers and sportspersons who hire marketing people […].

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

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The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. . I wasn’t a technology person. “Systems are made of people.

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