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Capital Group invests big in talent development

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For financial services company Capital Group, competing in tight IT talent markets is all about the long run. “We That focus includes not only the firm’s customer-facing strategies but also its commitment to investing in the development of its employees, a strategy that is paying off, as evidenced by Capital Group’s No.

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With the pandemic leaving many searching, group support app Circles raises new round

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Among players in the online group emotional support space there is Pace (which raised $14.9 Circles, a platform for online group emotional support, joined the fray in 2020, and has today raised $16.5 Circles says the process is guided by “trained and vetted” mental health professionals. million), Grouport (raised $1.5

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This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images

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Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Bria isn’t the only venture exploring a revenue-sharing business model for generative AI.

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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital

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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box , which emerged originally from Greece, has raised a Series A investment round of $10.6 million, led by Paladin Capital Group and joined by Osage University Partners, Brighteye Ventures and existing investors Marathon Venture Capital. It will use the funding to expand.

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SAP user groups see pick-up in migration to S/4HANA

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Enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA continues to climb despite the obstacles in its way, according to new research by user groups in the US and Europe. In the UK and Ireland, 89% of SAP customers are either using or planning to use S/4HANA, up from 74% in 2021, according to a survey conducted for the UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG).

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Cybrary secures $25M to grow its platform for cybersecurity training

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But some firms have escaped unscathed, like cybersecurity training platform Cybrary , which today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C funding round. Cybersecurity professionals at every stage of their careers need an affordable and accessible training platform to arm them with the skills and confidence to respond to threats.”

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Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

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The generated porn could have negative consequences particularly for marginalized groups, the ethicists say, including the artists and adult actors who make a living creating porn to fulfill customers’ fantasies. Of course, there’s a fertile market for adult artists who draw, paint and photograph suggestive works for a living.

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