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Former YouTube content moderator sues the company after developing symptoms of PTSD

The Verge

A former YouTube content moderator is suing the Google-owned company for failing to properly protect her and her co-workers from the mental harms caused by reviewing hours and hours of graphic footage every day. Such third-party agencies are often used by tech companies like Google and Facebook.

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In transition: How Kyndryl’s CIO weaned the company off IBM’s systems

CIO Business Intelligence

One advantage Bradshaw has that CIOs in other kinds of business don’t is he can turn learning experiences from costs into profit centers for Kyndryl if a task turns out to be something the consulting team can sell to other companies as a service.

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How this publicly traded manufacturing giant is testing generative AI business ideas

GeekWire

Pioneer Square Labs in downtown Seattle hosted about 30 employees from Fortive for a week-long exercise to test out ideas for generative artificial intelligence businesses. The organizations first teamed up in 2020 to help Fortive build new products and launch companies. Fortive spun out of D.C.-based

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A “Powerful” Board: How to Exercise “Supervisory” Power Effectively

Future of CIO

A “powerful” board can exercise supervisory power and co-determine of which powers are retained by the governing body and which are delegated to management, along with constraints that may apply. The “sovereign” power: Generally, the shareholders of the company exercise this third power.

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Fitness tech company JAXJOX raises $10M as it gets ready to ship AI-enabled workout system

GeekWire

The JAXJOX InteractiveStudio exercise system. based fitness technology company, has raised $10 million in a new funding round to help pay for the research and development of its signature InteractiveStudio workout equipment. and entrepreneur Nigel Wray, and brings total funding to $17 million for the 3-year-old company.

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After personal experience with cyberstalking, tech founder launches startup battling deepfake content

GeekWire

So Hutchins launched Certifi AI , a Seattle startup that is developing technology to identify and hopefully reduce the harm to girls and women who are targeted by deepfake bad actors. Hutchins, who is CEO and co-founder of Certifi AI, has bootstrapped the company and is currently the only full-time employee. Her motivation is personal.

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Amazon and Microsoft vet launches fitness and meditation chatbot powered by GPT

GeekWire

(Fit Hub Image) As a busy tech manager and father, Gopi Prashanth had only about 30 minutes a day for workouts and meditation — and he spent around half that time researching exercises on Google. The idea is to help the user develop healthy habits and for the app to learn more and more about them.