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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO. Athira Photos).

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

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Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday. But Thursday proved to be an inspiring day, as the 2021 GeekWire Awards returned to honor some of the leading innovators and entrepreneurs who make up the Pacific Northwest tech community. GeekWire video screen grabs).

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.)

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Sam Altman’s venture fund invests $3M in startup using humans and AI to keep people on task

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based startup that combines artificial intelligence and human empathy to help people stay on task and get stuff done, has checked a major item off its to-do list: the company has raised $3 million from Apollo Projects , the venture fund run by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his brothers. Shelpful Photo) Shelpful , a Portland, Ore.-based

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. December 2021. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry.

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Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy

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” (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is making a big new investment in OpenAI , the artificial intelligence powerhouse behind ChatGPT, extending a partnership that has the potential to reshape some of its biggest products. That investment wasn’t announced at the time, and does not appear to have been previously reported.

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10 tips for getting started with decision intelligence

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For organizations looking to move beyond stale reports, decision intelligence holds promise, giving them the ability to process large amounts of data with a sophisticated mix of tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms.

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