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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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Delays in TSMC’s Arizona plant spark supply chain worries

CIO Business Intelligence

Wei also noted that chemical supply costs in the US are substantially higher, citing the need to ship sulfuric acid from Taiwan to Los Angeles and then transport it to Arizona by truck.

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US targets advanced AI and cloud firms with new reporting proposal

CIO Business Intelligence

The proposed rules would require companies to report on development activities, cybersecurity measures, and results from red-teaming tests, which assess risks such as AI systems aiding cyberattacks or enabling non-experts to create chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

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Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering

CIO Business Intelligence

“Our goal is to empower governments and organizations to tackle scientifically and commercially relevant problems with today’s most advanced computational solutions — from designing and predicting properties of chemicals and materials, exploring molecular interactions, simulating complex chemical reactions, and more,” Zander said.

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Redefining the CIO role post-pandemic

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When Tate and Lyle announced its intention to split the company in two last summer, with its commodity ingredients business to be owned and controlled by an equity firm, group CIO Sanjay Patel found himself not only at the cut and thrust of business separation activity but reimagining the value of IT. “As

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Pricing it Right with End-to-End Product Cost Simulation

CIO Business Intelligence

So the leaders at Clariant International , a leading specialty chemical company, decided to build a tool that would monitor and analyze future price changes on finished goods instantly so they could make pricing decisions that pass-through costs to the value chain. What does a specialty chemical company make?

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KeyBank CIO Amy Brady heeds the transformative call of IT leadership

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What is that chemical? You can always learn from other industries and bring those back to your industry to improve your own practices and challenge your practices. The challenge is learning the industry. My first couple of years, I would spend hours and hours looking things up while I was reading the board material.

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