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Tech Transforms podcast: A reporter’s take on AI, data privacy, ChatGPT, and TikTok

Dynatrace

Nihal Krishan’s work as a technology reporter at FedScoop places him at the nexus of politics, policymaking, and technology. As a result, he has access to a variety of insights and opinions on new and emerging technologies. government’s AI spending, which has more than doubled since 2017. AI’s environmental impact.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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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. It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand. But not all rents are bad.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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