A remarkable and sober front page from today's print edition of The Wall Street Journal. We won't rest until Evan is released from wrongful detention in Russia, and his freedom is restored. #IStandWithEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime

Partners and resellers of VMware software say they have a matter of days to sign new contracts, and will be forced to either eat or pass on higher costs to customers wsj.com/articles/europ… Isabelle Bousquette

Mistral AI, Hugging Face and others are betting they can stand up to OpenAI and big tech firms by making their technology open source—but it could lead to more risk than reward, Belle Lin reports. wsj.com/articles/open-…

The IT job market in the U.S. is expected to shrink by another 20,000 to 30,000 jobs in 2024, while AI accelerates the automation of some tech jobs wsj.com/articles/tech-… Belle Lin

The rise of AI will tend to favor large, data-rich companies over smaller upstarts, according to Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. “This is a revolution that actually favors incumbents with large datasets,” he said. wsj.com/articles/cisco… via The Wall Street Journal #CIO #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

If students aren’t expelled for this behavior, UC Berkeley is complicit in a crime.

If university administrators can’t summon the courage to end this kind of persistent, systemic abuse on their campus, they must resign and hand their positions to people who can.

Eloquent and inspiring as ever, Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦

Remarkable new Boston Consulting Group study shows that GenAI actually *downgraded* performance on a problem-solving task—persuading employees to believe things that were untrue.

Humans plus machines were *worse* than humans alone.

Reported by @wsj Steve Rosenbush

Update: Some further findings…

wsj.com/articles/googl… great start for the WSJ CIO Summit with coverage by Belle Lin and Isabelle Bousquette #WSJCIO

The semiconductor industry is using generative artificial intelligence to accelerate chip design—a process that has become more time-consuming and complex just as demand picks up, Belle Lin reports. wsj.com/articles/desig…

Pro Take: Some CEOs See Growing Potential for Tech Acquisitions

In the latest The Wall Street Journal article by Steve Rosenbush, SVP Derek Idemoto shares insights about our strategic approach to M&A.👇

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The outlook for corporate M&A in tech: “You will see a huge increase in M&A of private companies. I’m betting on it,” says Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain #CIO #technology #mergersandacquisitions wsj.com/articles/pro-t…

Research in graphene -- the same substance found in common pencil lead-- shows new potential for use in semiconductors, Belle Lin reports. Georgia Tech nature #semiconductors #CIO wsj.com/articles/resea…

The difficulty of ensuring #artificialintelligence algorithms are safe, unbiased and accurate is turning some companies to a technology that has so-far failed to catch on in business: #blockchain . wsj.com/articles/ai-ha… Isabelle Bousquette

new from Kim Nash: Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt says Amazon cyber teams use generative AI to increase productivity—with caveats wsj.com/articles/amazo… #cybersecurity #GenerativeAI

exclusive from Isabelle Bousquette -- SandboxAQ bought Good Chemistry Company for roughly $75 million, looking to harness their combined quantum tech and AI to discover new drugs and develop new materials wsj.com/articles/sandb… via The Wall Street Journal

A wonderful tale of two cities from Chip Cutter, who became a supercommuter and wrote about it so the rest of us don't have to.wsj.com/lifestyle/trav… via The Wall Street Journal