Venture Beast

JULY 9, 2021

This week, TikTok parent company ByteDance began licensing parts of its AI technologies to third parties through a new division called BytePlus. Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today.

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Network World

MAY 24, 2024

These, along with issues such as software licensing, could disincentivise customers from using rival cloud providers, thereby stifling innovation and inhibiting competition in the cloud service market. Software licensing practices were not widely viewed, in isolation, as influencing the choice of public cloud provider.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

Microsoft Graphic Microsoft released a new version of a study that has documented the transformation of work over the past few years, from the implications of remote and hybrid work to the rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The six-employee company has partnerships with an undisclosed public biopharma company, the University of British Columbia, and others. The company plans to establish a manufacturing base in the state.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2024

(98point6 Photo) Seattle-based digital healthcare startup 98point6 has conducted a new round of layoffs, the company confirmed Tuesday. Another worker who joined the company more than six years ago called her layoff an “unplanned departure.” ” The company has around 100 employees in the U.S.,

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2023

The company said its overarching Microsoft Cloud offerings drove much of the growth, with quarterly revenue of $30.3 The Intelligent Cloud segment saw a revenue growth of 15%, amounting to $24 billion, largely due to an increase in Azure and other cloud services revenue. billion, marking a 21% increase year-over-year.

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2024

Soundry AI Photo) The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI , a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is part of the latest cohort at the startup accelerator Y Combinator. Partnerships: Soundry partners with artists and licenses their songs and samples to help train its AI. .

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 16, 2024

Laws prohibiting the use of a person's likeness for commercial gain have been in effect for some time, testing everything from the value of an influencer's endorsement to "freemium" reports by people search companies. The ELVIS Act grants standing to a licensee (i.e.,

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Less famously, Unity has also seen use in making films, training artificial intelligence, worker training films, and model creation for automakers and architects. Seattle-area engineering centers : Check out our list of offices established by companies headquartered outside of the region.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2024

A recent publication emphasizes the increasing demand for startups dedicated to developing open-source tools and technologies in the rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence. The ROSS Index introduces a geographical dimension by noting that 26 of the listed companies are based in the U.S.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

FinOps is a methodology for optimizing cloud resources and costs, and companies are operationalizing this strategy using in-house programs and outside partners. More savings faster: AI breaks down barriers Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role in optimizing cloud costs. This results in faster time-to-savings.

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2024

(GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A job posting by Wizards of the Coast went viral on social media over the weekend, highlighting some consumers’ lack of enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence, as well as the continuing fallout from some of Wizards’ recent controversies. At the end of May, Renton, Wash.-based

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Shutterstock will begin selling photos generated by artificial intelligence alongside those created by humans. OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 software will create the AI pictures Both companies say that human artists whose work inspired the AI will be compensated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

Companies are already very familiar with using open source code. As a result of all this experience, companies should know what to do to make sure they’re using properly-licensed code, how to check for vulnerabilities, and how to keep everything patched and up-to-date. Take the Llama license, for example.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Screenshot via webcast) Much like safety brakes in elevators make people comfortable using them in tall buildings, high-risk artificial intelligence systems need specialized precautions to ensure they don’t bring society crashing down. We think it has good solutions in terms of a licensing system for high-risk systems.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2023

98point6 Image) Healthcare company 98point6 landed additional investment to support its transition to a licensor of virtual care solutions, following a move to offload parts of its business. Axios , which first reported the news, said the company raised $32 million. 98point6 raised an additional $30.7 98point6 CEO Jay Burrell.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

… Read More Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he spoke Thursday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

CIOs are responsible for making sure that the company’s IT operations run smoothly. More and more as we move into the future, this is requiring an understanding of the importance of information technology in order to automate how the company performs its day-to-day operations. Where Have All The Needed Employees Gone? In the U.S.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

These are questions IT and finance leaders are wrestling with today because the cloud has left many companies in a balancing act—caught somewhere between the need for cloud innovation and the fiscal responsibility to ensure they are investing wisely, getting full value out of the cloud. Does it deliver strong returns?

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The New York Times filed a lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for training artificial intelligence models on millions of articles published by the newspaper.

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) A new startup wants to make financial analysts more efficient with its chatbot tool that uses artificial intelligence to search publicly available business filings and answer research questions in natural language. The platform is in development and the plan is to sell it through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) license.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Bouyed by the growing wave of software developers adopting artificial intelligence, GitHub is previewing a system called Copilot Workspace that uses natural language to help developers plan and implement projects. The company says Copilot Workpace will debut sometime in 2024.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2023

This morning, Microsoft started the equivalent of a home game — promising to use artificial intelligence to dramatically expand the powers of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and other core work apps. Now, by adding AI to the mix, the company is aiming to reinvent Office again.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

If you are a CIO or CISO and haven’t yet read this article – Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer,’ you should and then share it with your entire company. It could save your company millions, and potentially much more. Artificial Intelligence, Security

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

This includes running a benchmarking spend analysis on all categories relative to industry peers, as well as leading technology companies. Review software licenses and subscriptions Many organizations are over-licensed and oversubscribed on software, pushing costs higher than they need to be.

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Vox

MARCH 20, 2024

The nearly 20-year-old company is seeking to raise up to $748 million in its IPO on March 21, putting its valuation at about $6.4 It’s the first time that a major social media company has gone public since Snap (i.e., The company is reserving about 1.76 Snapchat ) in 2017. million in 2023. If it can’t, it risks another mutiny.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down into the major business segments reported by the Seattle-based company. Here’s how the company defines each segment in its 10Q filing. Here are the same results, expressed as a percentage of net sales.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SpaceX and other entrepreneurial launch companies are already moving rapidly to develop the transportation systems that can get us to the planet Mars,” Zubrin said in a statement issued in conjunction with today’s podcast. A computer-generated image shows an early Mars settlement.

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Vox

JANUARY 18, 2024

This did not escape the notice of the record companies, and in 2001, a federal court ruled that Napster was liable for copyright infringement. This generation’s big copyright battle is pitting journalists against artificially intelligent software that has learned from and can regurgitate their reporting. Or all of the above.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

… Read More Convoy reportedly cancels shipments as questions swirl about status of Seattle trucking marketplace Seattle-based trucking marketplace company Convoy has paused shipments, leaving the future status of the company unclear. … Read More . … Read More . … Read More

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2024

That’s the big question going into the Redmond company’s earnings report on Thursday afternoon, for the third quarter of the company’s 2024 fiscal year. Big picture: Microsoft is the most valuable publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of more than $3 trillion. More recent examples include a $1.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

Dell devices integrated with license plate readers have already read more than 10 million license plates and identified 3% of them as concerns,” says Gladys Gonzalez, IT director for the City of Doral. Our smart city successes help the economic development team invite companies to come here. Las Vegas Improves Public Safety.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

IT provides the plumbing for just about every company in existence today. We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 8, 2023

Zoom AI tools can be trained with customer data according to new terms In an essential move towards advancing its AI capabilities, Zoom is seeking to train its artificial intelligence models with certain user data, as revealed by the newly updated terms of service. Uniquely, this update doesn’t offer an opt-out option.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Christ also said generative AI is key to the company’s growth. We’ve been the first EAM vendor introducing an AI assistant to implement use cases managing the enterprise architecture,” he said, adding the company isn’t only using generative AI itself, but also helping its customers introduce it into their IT infrastructure and processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

The investment thesis was we could dramatically change the value of the company by becoming a true cloud and subscription-driven company. This isn’t just an IT or sales transformation; it’s a complete company transformation. In hindsight, what were the keys to this successful wholesale company transformation?

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Vouched uses artificial intelligence to help companies verify the identity of their customers, clients and contractors. Its software analyzes images of photo identity documents including passports and driver’s licenses. The company aims to do for ID verification what services like Stripe have done for online payments.

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