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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Legal indemnification is a common feature of gen AI contracts from OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, and other major vendors. To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models.

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Backcountry modernizes for the cloud era

CIO Business Intelligence

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. Undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of a dusty enterprise stack can feel a bit like scaling a mountain. But tech was in the total doldrums.”.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. When customers enter Adobe’s Creative Cloud, everything on their screen was developed by the Adobe product engineering team. Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years.

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Apple hires Tesla’s former Autopilot software director

The Verge

Apple hasn’t been all that vocal about its electric car project, but according to Bloomberg , the iPhone maker is hiring Tesla’s Autopilot software engineer to work on its EVs. We do know, however, that Apple has been hiring EV experts from other companies — especially Tesla. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If And we don’t just have our contracts team in place for the original signing, but also to review all the addendums they’re requesting, to make sure we’re protecting against any types of risk that can be inserted.”

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

GeekWire

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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Tech Moves: Portland’s Act-On adds two new execs; Tanium adds public sector SVP; and more

GeekWire

Gregg Ames, left, and Syed Ahmed, two recent hires at Act-On. based marketing automation platform, added Gregg Ames as chief commercial officer and Syed Ahmed as senior vice president of engineering. Ahmed previously was CTO and vice president of engineering at Contiq. . Act-On Photos). — Act-On , a Portland, Ore.-based

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