I will be in Johannesburg this October at PyCon Africa Apify is proudly sponsoring the event. We will also be doing a live workshop on How to monetize your software projects. And I will touching a sensitive topic “Is web scraping legal?” Let’s meet if you are around
BUSINESS
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Data Privacy as Competitive Advantage in AI Market
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Given how competitive the AI space is I expect "we don't train on text provided by your employees" to be a key feature for winning paying customers – and it is, almost all the labs promote that for their paid accounts
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Corporate Data Breach Risk: Employees Using ChatGPT Unsupervised
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Show me any company that can confidently tell you that none of their employees have ever uploaded a private internal memo to ChatGPT for help writing or understanding it
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Algorithm convergence trap: viral content as optimization limit
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in the limit of revenue/growth maxxing via A/B tests doesn't it all just converge to funny panda videos? it's the supermasive black hole at the center of the universe and no matter the initial conditions you eventually get sucked in. reels. youtube shorts. substack notes.
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AI’s Silent Threat to Your Brand’s Image and Reputation
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𝐋𝐞ç𝐨𝐧 𝟖 – 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 2 𝐈𝐀 : 𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐪𝐮𝐞
Ce n’est pas un mirage. L’IA sabote votre image en silence.
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Scenario narratives guide strategic tech planning and stakeholder alignment
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A scenario narrative in tech domains supports structured thinking, helps anticipate shifts, guides strategic planning, and aligns stakeholders through a concrete view of possible developments. Source @Gartner_inc Link https://
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Do You Need AI? Critical Question for Implementation
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"Do you need AI?" – love the first question
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Software vendors face earnings pressures amid market volatility
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The TL Podcast for August 26th: Software’s not dead yet The past two weeks have brought disappointments in earnings such as Coherent and Applied Materials, but also successes such as Analog Devices and Palo Alto Networks. Commercial software vendors such as Salesforce face a
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Nutanix CEO highlights VMware gains, Pure and Snowflake momentum
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Nutanix CEO talks VMware victories, Pure, Snowflake surge, Nvidia falls Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says the continued stream of new customers show the company is making progress luring away users of arch-rival VMware. Also, Snowflake and Pure Storage are both on a roll with
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Google’s Marketing Failure: Why Products Remain Hidden
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Why does Google just royally suck at marketing their products and how to find them? YT and Reddit are full of this same question.
