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Tech Moves: OpenAI hires former Amazon Web Services leader to lead new Tokyo office

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(LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki , a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its first office in Asia. Before that, he held a similar role for Seattle security giant F5 for more than a decade. “Day one again.”

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LinkedIn Shuts Down Four XSS Flaws, Is wireless the Trojan horse in your network security? and more

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IE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought - “A recently announced and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in Taiwan since the beginning of July, according to security researchers.”

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‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood

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Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services VP of Product, shows some of the third-party services that Amazon Connects with in its new Amazon Q artificial intelligence tool for work. Listen above, or subscribe to GeekWire in Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen. “NEED GPU?”

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How the NHL is using AI to predict key moments in games

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Brant Berglund, senior director of coaching and GM applications at the NHL, demos new statistics the league is rolling out in partnership with Amazon Web Services. I checked out the action at Climate Pledge — named after Amazon’s carbon neutral initiative — and ran into Amazon Web Services chief Adam Selipsky.

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Seattle startup uses AI to help job seekers refine resumes, land gigs amid widespread layoffs

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She started to get more active on LinkedIn and discovered many others who had difficulty securing interviews. Gupta, who has nearly 160,000 followers on LinkedIn, currently works as a full-time senior technical recruiter at Uber and previously was a senior technical recruiter at Amazon Web Services.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

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Haiyan Song joined Seattle-based F5 Networks as EVP of security. Song was most recently SVP and general manager of security markets at Splunk. She previously held senior marketing roles at startups LiveStories, Smartsheet, Allrecipes.com and Turi, which sold to Apple in 2016. Read the story.

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Amazon crushes earnings estimates with $108.5B in Q1 revenue, up 44%, profits of $8.1B, up 224%

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The Seattle-based giant has surged amid the pandemic as more consumers turn to online shopping and companies rely on its cloud arm, Amazon Web Services. In a report this week, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said “we think that new habits learned during the pandemic may be difficult to break for many Prime customers.”