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

CIO Business Intelligence

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. 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.

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Shift AI Podcast: Setting AI guidelines at work, with City of Seattle interim CTO, Jim Loter

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Jim Loter, a longtime tech leader inside the city of Seattle, currently serves as interim chief technology officer. We brought in some folks from Microsoft and we consulted with folks from Adobe and from AWS to give us their perspectives on what was emerging.

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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: Zillow exec Racquel Russell joins Bird’s board; new gig for startup vet Rebecca Lovell

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. — Microsoft’s M12 venture fund chief Nagraj Kashyap departed to join SoftBank’s Vision Fund as managing partner. Seattle-based Denali Financial Consulting appointed former Create33 executive director Rebecca Lovell as its new CEO. Thompson was most recently EVP of worldwide field operations at Adobe.

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

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The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Shanahan , previously chief operating and innovation officer at Globys, a software company offering digital billing products. Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform

CIO Business Intelligence

The first, says Eliot Andres, co-founder and CTO, is to add the latest AI features to the app itself to keep it competitive. The company is using a wide variety of generative AI tools to create content and connect with customers, including ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, and Salesloft among others. “We