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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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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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Microsoft Ignite 2023 guide: AI transformation and Microsoft Azure

Dynatrace

Indeed, AI is revolutionizing our world, driving rapid innovation, and transforming how we engage with technology personally and professionally. To keep up, organizations are making significant investments to harness this technology and unlock new opportunities to thrive in the era of AI with Microsoft Azure and adjacent technologies.

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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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The future of AI: Kelsey Hightower on how AI can raise the bar for humanity

Dynatrace

While technology is taking aim at many of today’s problems, there’s little doubt that it also introduces new challenges for today’s IT teams. The AI chatbot wasn’t aware of the relationship Grabner and Hightower had built connecting at Perform last year, proving that while technology can help humans, it can’t replace them.

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Achieving business resilience with modern observability, AI, and automation

Dynatrace

In part, business resilience involves an approach to building a technology environment that enables an enterprise to adapt quickly to changing circumstances. To that end, business resilience requires a strong, secure, and flexible technology foundation to accommodate macroeconomic change.

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What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT.

High Scalability

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. Additionally, cloud computing allows for greater collaboration and innovation, as it enables users to access and share data and resources from anywhere, at any time. Can you expand?

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