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Shift AI Podcast: Setting AI guidelines at work, with City of Seattle interim CTO, Jim Loter

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Jim Loter, a longtime tech leader inside the city of Seattle, currently serves as interim chief technology officer. We brought in some folks from Microsoft and we consulted with folks from Adobe and from AWS to give us their perspectives on what was emerging. Being mission-driven is important to me.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Shanahan , previously chief operating and innovation officer at Globys, a software company offering digital billing products. Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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CIOs confront generative AI’s workplace X factor

CIO Business Intelligence

“Our examiners are welcoming the help from AI tools to take away the clerical and administrative functions so they can focus more on thoughtful analytics that cannot be merely programmed.” I’ve never seen a machine make an intuitive leap without it being programmed by a human.”

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO Business Intelligence

Holly Hester-Reilly, founder and CEO of H2R Product Science, a product management coaching and consulting firm, is seeing similar numbers in her practice. PMs (or wannabe PMs) should also be looking at technical program manager and chief of staff roles.” That can make a big difference in your paycheck. Digibee’s Porte agrees.

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Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform

CIO Business Intelligence

The first, says Eliot Andres, co-founder and CTO, is to add the latest AI features to the app itself to keep it competitive. PhotoRoom doesn’t have a formal training program, he says. When the technology first started coming out, the team was mesmerized. Andres’ advice? We started playing with it right away,” he says.

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7 key questions CIOs need to answer before committing to generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

“It’s one of the largest deployments of generative AI that I know of,” says David McCurdy, Insight’s chief enterprise architect and CTO. But we sat down and fed it contracts and asked it nuanced questions about them: where are the liabilities, where are the risks,” he says. “But This will be a use case all over the world.”