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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

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Institutional Innovation - I Have a Dream

Edge Perspectives

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Organization: Shift from departments and hierarchies to workgroups and networks.

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The Rise of ESRI Application Developers: Leveraging GIS Technology for Enhanced Decision-Making

Tech News Gather

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute), a global leader in GIS technology, has been at the forefront of developing innovative tools and platforms that enable businesses, governments, and individuals to harness the power of geospatial data for enhanced decision-making.

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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

The cloud is an opportunity to stay competitive in each of these domains by giving companies freedom to innovate quickly. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can leverage AWS to run applications and store data in France.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. For more information about how customers are innovating using AWS, see All AWS Customer Stories.

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5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

O'Reilly

With its high bar for data privacy and security, lessons learned in health care could inform development and practice in government and other regulation-heavy industries. Their work could inspire innovations in other spaces with similar characteristics. Health care. Real estate.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. Economic subsidies are a common practice, typically sponsored by governments to protect or advance economic development.

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