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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

TechCrunch

8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. After technical due diligence begins, no amount of storytelling can cover the secrets buried in GitHub and Jira. After technical due diligence begins, no amount of storytelling can cover the secrets buried in GitHub and Jira.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

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Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. There are over 77,000 people incarcerated in New York across the state and New York City correctional systems. ”

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Four investors explain why AI ethics can’t be an afterthought

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A founder recently told TechCrunch+ that it’s hard to think about ethics when innovation is so rapid: People build systems, then break them, and then edit. Some investors said they tackle this by doing due diligence on a founder’s ethics to help determine whether they’ll continue to make decisions the firm can support.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

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Key elements of SAFe: Value streams and agile release trains At the core of any successful SAFe implementation are value streams and agile release trains (ARTs). The third level, Large Solution Level, involves two or more ARTs coordinated as a solution train. Apply systems thinking into all facets of development.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

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This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

TechCrunch

Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets.

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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

CIO

The Burgeoning Complexity of IT and Security Solutions On a business level, complexity comes from growth through acquisition – when enterprises inherit systems of record and of work that, more often than not, are different from one another. Training and awareness. There’s the complexity of security in the organization. Encryption.