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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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In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. 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.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

CIO Business Intelligence

Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says. “A And their training efforts extend beyond internal staff.

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

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The tech: Variational AI’s Enki software generates novel molecular structures using its algorithms trained on a set of compounds screened against drug targets from both experimental and computational sources. Instead of licensing its platform, Variational AI aims to develop and license its own compounds. million in seed funding.

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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

CIO Business Intelligence

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

With a pre-trained model, you can bring it into HR, finance, IT, customer service—all of us are touched by it.” In July, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. Traditional ML requires a lot of data, experienced data scientists, as well as training and tuning. Then gen AI came out.