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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

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Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs

GeekWire

Zulily’s website was “down for maintenance” Monday in the latest sign of the retailer’s collapse. The online retailer earlier this month planned to shut down three offices, including its Seattle headquarters, and lay off more than 800 people in total. The company later announced a “going-out-of-business” sale.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. The bank’s use of its mainframes is two-pronged. M&T Bank.

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

GeekWire

Volodymyr Kvashuk, a 26-year-old software developer and Ukrainian citizen who worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, took advantage of a testing program for Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. Kvashuk used a “bitcoin mixing service” to try and mask the source of the funds he was moving into his bank account.

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO Business Intelligence

In this new reality where a bank can go under in two weeks, and new innovations are fundamentally changing our ways of life (e.g., With our comprehensive Tanzu and Aria platforms, VMware has become a trusted partner to help organizations become more agile and responsive in software development. Software Development

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Vakrangee, a Mumbai-based provider of banking and e-governance services, has appointed Prashanth Thakur as senior vice president and head of technology and digital. Rahul Khona has been appointed head of information technology at Nexus Malls, the operator of 16 malls with almost 10 million square feet of retail space across India.