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Vibrant Planet raises $17M seed round to grow forest restoration SaaS

TechCrunch

It’s basically SaaS for forest management, something the company calls an “operating system for forest restoration.” And since lidar is expensive to fly, the company uses another AI tool to keep it updated using cheaper satellite imagery. It’s been pretty easy to recruit top Silicon Valley talent,” Wolff said.

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12 most popular AI use cases in the enterprise today

CIO

Airbnb is one company using AI to optimize pricing on AWS, utilizing AI to manage capacity, to build custom cost and usage data tools, and to optimize storage and computing capacity. DC Water even has an AI tool called Pipe Sleuth that can review CCTV footage of sewer pipes to assess their maintenance needs in real-time.

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6 Ways Candidates Think They Are Smarter Than Your Remote Assessment Tool

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

So, without further ado, let’s take a look at the 6 most commonly deployed tricks your assessment tool needs to guard against , shall we? . #1. With the latest upgrades in Windows and Mac operating systems, candidates can, in-fact, store and keep-at-the-ready, not one but a string of copied texts. El switch-a-tab-aroo. .

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Creator monetization and CRM startup Pico raises $6.5M

TechCrunch

” The company provides a long list of different tools, including landing pages, pop-ups to collect email addresses, paid newsletters, subscription paywalls, tiered membership programs, recurring and one-time donations and video revenue tools. “A creator can’t scale a business without the proper tools,” Bade continued.

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A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan

CIO

Martha Heller, CEO of IT executive recruiting firm Heller Search Associates, recently spoke with Nallappan about dynamic cloud architecture, cloud cost containment, developing a cloud-conscious culture, and why it makes sense to give engineers financial goals when giving them ownership over their cloud estates.

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Tiger Global is betting that more schools are going to share future student earnings

TechCrunch

The lack of gender diversity, even as an early-stage startup with a handful of employees, could hurt its competitive advantage, recruiting prospects, and performance over time. Blair started as a tool to underwrite students with loans that would pay for college, a sum that would eventually be repaid through an income-share agreement.

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Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’

TechCrunch

But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that tech has to offer, leaving the door open for some disruption. They include tools to source candidates.