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By Shaakun Khanna, Senior Advisor, AI & Leadership Transformation, SHRM For the past two years, organizations have been racing to integrate artificial intelligence into everyday work. Companies have invested heavily in AI tools, launched enterprise-wide training programs, encouraged experimentation, and celebrated rising adoption rates as a sign of digital transformation
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The agency argues that xAI’s operations are integral to US military operations. Thrive Studios ID/Shutterstock The Department of Justice, along with the state of Mississippi, are asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit the NAACP filed against xAI in April. If you'll recall, the organization sued
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When Spotify evaluated its cloud compute options, it needed more than incremental improvements. Its recommendation engine delivers real-time suggestions to millions of users around the clock, placing heavy demands on compute infrastructure while requiring tight control over energy use and costs. During its evaluation of next-generation cloud processors, Spotify found
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Veeam® Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, today announced the second annual EmpowHer VMCE+ Accelerator, a 14-week program designed to expand access, opportunity, and representation for women across the technology industry through certification, hands on learning, and career pathways. As organizations accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption, the need
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By Shibu Paul, Vice President – International Sales at Array Networks As digital transformation accelerates, applications have become the backbone of business operations. From customer platforms to internal systems, almost every interaction now happens through web and API-driven environments. This shift has made application-layer security a priority and to strengthen the
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India's residential solar market is attracting renewed investor attention as SolarSquare, the country's largest residential rooftop solar company, announced a $53 million Series C funding round led by B Capital. Existing investors Lightspeed, Elevation Capital, Lowercarbon Capital, Rainmatter by Zerodha and Good Capital also participated in
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CrowdStrike announced Continuous Identity for AI Agents, a new CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security capability that reinforces the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform as the identity security control plane for the agentic enterprise. As AI agents operate with superhuman speed and access, legacy models built on static policies and standing privileges break
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Rocapine, a Paris venture studio building wellness apps, has raised a $13m Series A led by Educapital, the company said. The pitch is a neat inversion: take the playbook that made mobile gaming addictive, fast iteration, AI-native development, performance marketing, and aim it at the opposite outcome. Not time on
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Optiak, a startup building what it calls a modular operating system for enterprise AI, has come out of stealth with a €4m pre-seed round, about $4.7m, led by Market One Capital, Next Tier Ventures, EA Ventures Plug and Play EMEA Fund and Mission. The company, the founders say, is
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When the US government ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to its most capable models, and the company switched them off worldwide rather than try to comply selectively, it handed every advocate of home-grown AI a tidy piece of evidence. Sung Kim, chief executive of the South Korean startup Upstage,
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Alibaba has revealed its first suite of AI models for robots, a move that says as much about where Chinese technology is heading as about the models themselves. The launch came as the industry pivots away from chatbots and towards agents, the systems meant to carry out complex tasks rather
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Florida has sued TikTok, accusing the app of breaking the state’s law restricting minors’ access to social media and of misleading parents about what their children would find there. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the suit on 15 June, filing it in St. Lucie County Circuit Court. The complaint
