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Meta and Microsoft vets land $2.2M for startup building ‘shared brain’ developer platform

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Augmend Photo) A new artificial intelligence startup wants to help software development teams capture, store, and query their company data and knowledge. He also has experience developing AI products at Amazon and Microsoft. The startup is developing a chat bar for users to make natural language queries.

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Ex-Microsoft engineer gets 9 years in prison after using digital currency scheme to buy $1.6M lakefront home, $160K Tesla

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The Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. An ex-Microsoft engineer was sentenced to nine years in prison for 18 federal felonies after he stole more than $10 million worth of digital currency from his ex-employer and used the funds to finance purchases including a $1.6 million in bitcoin to his bank and investment accounts.

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Microsoft’s real AI battle against Google begins with the promise of new superpowers for work

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot in a prerecorded event Thursday morning. Microsoft was encroaching onto Google’s turf when it announced an AI-powered Bing search engine last month. But for Microsoft, the stakes are much higher in productivity than in search.

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OneFamily’s response to the data quality question

CIO Business Intelligence

Having been in financial services for almost 25 years, O’Sullivan spent his first 11 years at Citigroup, which was then the biggest bank in the world, claiming it had more software developers than Microsoft. “Traditionally, AI data quality has been a challenge.” So migrating systems was integral. “I

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO Business Intelligence

“AI is showing up in every software package and in every technology, particularly generative AI,” says Dan Diasio, global AI consulting leader at EY, while some vendors, such as Microsoft, have made AI core to their software. Webster Bank is following a similar strategy. We want to maintain discipline and go deep.”

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Elevate Your Protection Strategy at CSO’s Future of Cybersecurity Summit

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Brian Behlendorf, general manager of the Open Source Security Foundation , will explain a new effort backed by Amazon , Google , Microsoft and others to improve the security of open-source software. and now president of the GFCE Foundation Board , and Christopher Burgess, formerly of the CIA and now a CSO contributor.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

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The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. And AWS recently announced Bedrock, a fully managed service that enables enterprise software developers to embed gen AI functionality into their programs.

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