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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat — “one-size-fits-all” syndrome.

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How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company

TechCrunch

For the foreseeable future, global markets will require billions of highly specialized electric machines that perform much better than the inefficient relics of the past. Fortunately, the SaaS direction has delivered upsides: We’ve achieved relatively strong product-market fit and cash flow-positive status without big VC raises or burn rates.

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Taktile raises $20M to help fintech companies test and deploy decision-making models

TechCrunch

The two met while studying at Harvard and were both a part of the leadership team at QuantCo, a company building AI-powered apps for enterprise customers. This means that if a head of credit, for example, wants to make a change to the lending criteria, they have to raise a ticket with the IT department. ” Image Credits: Taktile. .

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10 things keeping IT leaders up at night

CIO

The Society for Information Management (SIM) recently conducted its annual trends study and found that nearly a quarter of the IT leaders polled listed AI and machine learning as an area of concern, says SIM CEO Mark Taylor. That’s not to say they’re looking to ditch their roles or smash machines, as the real Luddites had.

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The curious case of the disappearing Hydrox cookies

The Hustle

commands nearly 40% of the cookie market. She’s visited multiple grocery stores near her home in the Bronx, followed a Facebook group, and even talked to a manager at a production facility in El Segundo, California, about supply shortages. Almost 30, 40 years I’ve been on the trail for Hydrox,” she says.

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

TechCrunch

By building their own tech stacks and shifting the resulting (much lower than market) costs away from inmates, Ameelio provides an enticing alternative to the totally outdated systems in most prisons today. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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Hivery bags new money to automatically optimize product placement on store shelves

TechCrunch

chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch. chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch. We call it ‘hyper-local retailing.'”

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