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Tech Moves: Workday CIO joins Tanium board; Madrona investor departs; City of Seattle hires CTO

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Johnson is the chief information officer at HR giant Workday. She previously held IT leadership roles at Cloud Software Group, TIBCO, and SolarWinds. -based cybersecurity company Tanium added two new board members: Rani Johnson and Tim Millikin. TPG is an investor in Tanium.

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

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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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Seekr finds the AI computing power it needs in Intel’s cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. Seekr’s main business is building and training AIs that are transparent to enterprise and other users. So, Seekr signed on with a regional colocation provider to host several GPU- and CPU-enabled systems.

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Oracle bolsters distributed cloud, AI strategy with new Mexico cloud region

CIO Business Intelligence

Earlier this month, the company said it expects cloud revenue to grow 29% to 31% in the second quarter of 2024, driven by high demand for AI and generative A I workloads from enterprises. billion quarterly in cloud infrastructure. billion quarterly in cloud infrastructure. The first region in Mexico is based at Querétaro.

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SAP AI pact with AWS offers customers more gen AI options

CIO Business Intelligence

Such AI partnerships are important for SAP, said Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, pointing to other cooperations, for example with IBM, the chip manufacturer Nvidia and various universities. The cloud hyperscalers AWS, Google and Microsoft are also important platform partners to operate SAP’s cloud applications.

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7 common IT training mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

What’s not often discussed, however, are the mistakes IT leaders make when establishing and supervising training programs, particularly when training is viewed as little more than an obligatory task. Is your organization giving its teams the training they need to keep pace with the latest industry developments?

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Former Kymeta CEO lands $6M to reimagine AI training with new Seattle-area startup Rendered.AI

GeekWire

There are a lot of potential problems with the way we train AI models. Physicist Nathan Kundtz has a plan to fix that, which could drive huge improvements to AI training. to create synthetic datasets for training artificial intelligence systems, as well as building an infrastructure that allows engineers to customize and modify them.

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