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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.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

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Tech Moves: Tanium hires CFO; Utrip founder launches VC firm; AWS IoT exec joins Siemens

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. — Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Seattle startup Ally.io, which develops goal-setting collaboration software, added three new executives: Rajiv Arunkundram as head of product. He will start in September.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

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We have a very diversified portfolio,” says Morin, who oversees roughly 1,000 IT employees within the company’s technology arm but estimates that between 2,000 and 3,000 employees in total are developing, selling or servicing JLL’s software. “We Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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Chief AI officer: What it takes to land the C-suite’s hottest new job

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As countless organizations race to investigate or adopt artificial intelligence technologies, many are building out an AI skilled workforce. That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co.,

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CDOs, data science heads to fill Chief AI Officer positions in India

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Last year in September, market research firm IDC floated a quick survey globally sampling responses from 97 CIOs. Artificial Intelligence, Chief Digital Officer, IT Leadership Most (53%) said they either already had this AI leader role or planned to have it within the next 12 months. “In

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Funding news: AI-fueled drug discovery startup and auto safety company raise cash

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based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The field: Advances in biomedical science and artificial intelligence have combined to spawn efforts at drug design and discovery in the last several years. Variational AI CEO Handol Kim. Moment Energy Photo).

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