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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

“Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. The new ads were created very quickly,” says Banks. They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests.

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How the metaverse will help financial organizations transform employee and customer experience on Microsoft Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, clients can hold virtual consultations with investment advisors across the globe and improve their financial knowledge by using 3D interactive tools. Metaverse applications are developing quickly. According to  Gartner , 25% of people will spend at least an hour in the metaverse by 2026.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Investor exuberance waned later that week, dropping the chip designer out of the trillion-dollar club in short order, just as former members Meta and Tesla had fallen before it, but it was soon back in the club, and in mid-June, investment bank Morgan Stanley forecast Nvidia’s value could continue to rise another 15% before the year is out.

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Why these tech startups turned down millions of dollars in PPP loans from the federal government

GeekWire

But that’s exactly what two venture capital-backed Pacific Northwest tech startups did recently with their Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. The decision to refrain from accepting money in the midst of a global pandemic reflects larger confusion around the $660 billion program to support U.S. million ready for the taking.

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GeekWire 200 update: Health tech and B2C startups rise up rankings of top PNW companies

GeekWire

Many have extra cash in the bank, too, as venture capitalists are pouring money into Pacific Northwest tech companies at unprecedented levels. But several of this month’s biggest movers up the list are B2C startups including 3D printing company Glowforge (No. More than half of GeekWire 200 companies sell to other businesses.

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Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

GeekWire

Buse previously served as co-CEO and CEO of Monitise, a global mobile banking and payments company, from 2014 to 2015. McLean was most recently vice president at 3D Systems Corporation and previously held executive sales roles at Hitachi and Hewlett Packard. F5 Networks appointed Elizabeth Buse to its board of directors. so much joy.”

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

Because of our expansion, we now count a number of well-known South African enterprises as customers such as Absa, Discovery, Investec, MedScheme, MiX Telematics, MMI Holdings Limited, Old Mutual, Pick n Pay, Standard Bank, and Travelstart. This project uses 3D digital imagery to create records of over one million items.

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