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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO Business Intelligence

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s also in the service business, operating its own cloud infrastructure for pharmaceutical firms, manufacturing, and others. One is building and running the virtual worlds in which self-driving algorithms are tested without putting anyone at risk. Nvidia gets two bites at this market. The other is the cars themselves.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

GeekWire

In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. Portland-based Sparrow Pharmaceuticals appointed Frank Czerwiec as chief medical officer and Jamie MacPherson as VP of regulatory affairs and quality. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Gen AI: Should you build or buy?

CIO Business Intelligence

Foundry’s 2023 AI Priorities study found interest in a broad range of gen AI use cases, including chatbots and virtual assistants (56%), content generation (55%), industry-specific applications (48%), data augmentation (46%), and personalized recommendations (39%). The case for building Enthusiasm for AI is now universal among IT leaders.

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Data Management in the Healthcare Industry

CIO Business Intelligence

Blockchain, because of its ability to immutably preserve transaction records, could accurately manage the distribution of pharmaceuticals, said Steven M Prentice @StevenPrentice. But AI is not the only technology that could have a profound impact on wellness.

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Nvidia and Siemens to accelerate digital twins’ development

CIO Business Intelligence

Everything we build in the real world is becoming so complex: We can’t imagine building these things without first simulating them inside the digital, virtual world,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia.

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Frazier Healthcare Partners raises $1.4B fund, one of the largest in Washington state history

GeekWire

Frazier is focused on healthcare-related opportunities in pharmaceutical services, hospital outsourcing, and data analytics/AI. “We have provider-based businesses, and in each of those virtual healthcare has become a major component,” he noted. Investors: The fund took about five months to raise.