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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society

GeekWire

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on the GeekWire Podcast at Amazon in Seattle, focusing on issues including AI and social responsibility. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Early versions of generative AI were “like a dancing bear,” says Werner Vogels , the Amazon chief technology officer.

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Microsoft alumni reunite in Redmond, look ahead to what’s next in AI and the world

GeekWire

Ali Spain, the Microsoft Alumni Network’s outgoing executive director, opens the Connect 2023 conference in Redmond on Thursday morning. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert at the Microsoft Alumni Network conference. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) REDMOND, Wash. Mike Sievert knew exactly how to break the ice with this crowd.

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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

GeekWire

GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) 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. Less than two weeks later, the OpenAI board removed him from the position.

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Inside Nasdaq’s AI-fueled pivot to SaaS provider

CIO Business Intelligence

Brad Peterson, the company’s CIO and CTO, has been implementing AI for more than a decade and is all in on the promised innovation afforded by generative AI. “We Having an integrated CIO/CTO role allows our technology teams to implement an integrated strategy both in our products and on our business operations,” Peterson says.

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

GeekWire

Prior to StrikeGraph, Beals was CTO at Seattle startups NextStep , which he also co-founded, and Koru. With his experience in learning technologies and entrepreneurship, Beals said he wants to apply that experience and his network to help the organization fulfill its mission locally and then scale it. Currently ranked No.

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AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote with Andy Jassy

Scott Lowe

Today’s keynote is led by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services. This is only the 5th re:Invent conference, and Jassy confirms that this year’s attendance is 32,000 with another 50,000 listening in via the live stream. As an example of enterprise transformation, Jassy introduces Tom Gergets, CTO of McDonald’s Corporation.

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Events of Interest To The Enterprise Technologist

CTOvision

The following are some of the events we are tracking in our CTO Events Calendar. On Wednesday, June 15 from 3:15 PM to 4:00 PM, join Bob Flores, Executive Partner of Cognitio, and Junaid Islam, CTO of Vidder, Inc, for their session on How to Stop Catastrophic Cyber Failure in Your Organization. Marketing Analytics Conference.