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Should Oracle or Alphabet buy VMWare instead of Broadcom?

TechCrunch

It’s not an inexpensive transaction, but thanks to a “go-shop” provision that gives VMware 40 days to “solicit, receive, evaluate and potentially enter negotiations with parties that offer alternative proposals,” there’s market speculation that another bidder could enter the fray.

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Hawk AI, an anti-money laundering and fraud prevention platform for banks, raises $17M

TechCrunch

Black box Besides the legacy incumbents in the space such as Verafin , BAE Systems , and Oracle , there are other notable newish-comers in this space, including financial fraud unicorn Feedzai and VC-backed Feature Space. Among its customers are European spend-management platform Moss , U.S.

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The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Arm says that Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle have all now adopted Arm Neoverse for both general-purpose computing and CPU-based AI inference and training. In early 2024, after two years of research, Galileo released a suite of evaluation models called Luna that are trained to recognize harmful outputs.

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Accelerating Text Generation with Confident Adaptive Language Modeling (CALM)

Google Research AI blog

We evaluate each of the three confidence measures (softmax response, state propagation and early-exit classifier) using an 8-layer encoder-decoder model. To evaluate global sequence-level performance, we use the standard Rouge-L , BLEU , and Token-F1 scores that measure distances against human-written references.

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This former Tesla CIO just raised $150 million more to pull car dealers into the 21st century

TechCrunch

As Vijayan tells it, he knew nothing about cars until joining Tesla in 2011, following a dozen years of working in product development at Oracle, then VMware. It’s the precise opportunity that former Tesla CIO, Jay Vijayan, concluded he was well-positioned to address while still in the employ of the electric vehicle giant.

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Beware the hidden bias behind TikTok resumes

TechCrunch

Nagaraj Nadendla is SVP of development at Oracle Cloud HCM , where he leads the development of cloud recruitment solutions including Oracle Recruiting and Taleo. But evaluating candidates through video could erase any progress made by introducing more opportunities for unconscious, or even conscious, bias. Nagaraj Nadendla.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

In this resource-strapped environment, it's arguable that not considering open source options seriously when evaluating your software toolbox is a disservice to your organization, board, constituents, and clients. . As open source software moves more and more into the application layer, it is increasingly relevant to nonprofits.