How Experts in Change Management Lead a Successful Digital Transformation
A couple of years ago, I led an agile transformation program for a major hospital system. Their vision statement was to pilot process changes and new technologies to improve patient experiences while simplifying work for doctors, nurses, and administrators. They asked me to train their project managers on agile methodologies
Read moreAlphabet spin-off SIP launches Verrus, a data center concept built around battery ‘microgrids’
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners — the Alphabet spinout that focuses on building and backing new approaches to complicated infrastructure problems in areas like power, broadband and waste management — has launched its latest project, a new concept for more flexible data center energy management called Verrus. Verrus incorporates “microgrids” based on
Read moreAirbnb is banning indoor security cameras
Nick Barclay / The Verge Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to use indoor security cameras, regardless of where they’re placed or what they’re used for. In an update on Monday, Airbnb says the change to “prioritize the privacy” of renters goes into effect on April 30th. The vacation rental
Read moreCovariant is building ChatGPT for robots
Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the cofounder and CEO of the U.C. Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, “is basically a large language model (LLM), but for robot language.” RFM-1 is the result of, among other things, a massive
Read moreEU’s use of Microsoft 365 found to breach data protection rules
A lengthy investigation into the European Union’s use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc’s data protection rules through its use of the cloud-based productivity software. Announcing its decision in a press release today, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said the Commission infringed “several key data
Read moreSuperAGI snags funding from Jan Koum’s Newlands VC to fuel its full-stack AGI ambitions
SuperAGI wants to build a full-stack Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) platform based on Large Agentic Models (LAMs) — seen by some as the next stage in development for Large Language Models. Now, with its research picking up traction with some 20,000 developers — including people at Microsoft, Google, Tencent, Tesla and
Read moreFeeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds
In the last 12 months, reader apps have adopted AI to change how users consume news. Instagram co-founders’ now discontinued Artifact introduced AI-powered summaries and headlines. Newer apps like Bulletin and former Twitter engineer’s Particle are taking similar approaches. However, developer Nate Parrott’s app Feeeed (it’s four Es), which is
Read moreElon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, he said, days after suing OpenAI and complaining that the Microsoft-backed startup had deviated from its open source roots. xAI released Grok last year, arming it with features including access to “real-time” information. The service is available
Read more‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin raises $24M as it attains full banking license
Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank, an API-driven banking-as-a-service platform just obtained a banking license, roughly one year after starting the application process. This means it has been given the green light from the UK’s financial services regulators, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority
Read moreCyber Security Today for Monday, March 11, 2024 – Breaking Bad in Cyber Security
Breaking Bad in cybersecurity – UK companies are warned that cybersecurity employees may moonlight on the dark web. Microsoft reveals that Russians hackers’ attack is still ongoing. A system used by US government states and agencies has a critical flaw and a new attack vector using fonts has been detected
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