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APRIL 29, 2024

As organizations roll out AI applications and AI-enabled smartphones and devices, IT leaders may need to sell the benefits to employees or risk those investments falling short of business expectations. That’s because employees have decidedly mixed feelings about AI coming to their workplaces, according to the recent survey by IT solutions integrator Insight , even as many enterprises are already adopting or experimenting with AI and as AI-enabled phones begin hitting the market.

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Dataversity

APRIL 29, 2024

Businesses today are drowning in data. The sheer volume and complexity of information available have made it increasingly difficult for organizations to extract meaningful insights using traditional business intelligence (BI) tools and the expertise of specialized data scientists. This is where augmented analytics comes in. This game-changing technology combines the power of artificial intelligence (AI) […] The post The Rise of Augmented Analytics: Combining AI with BI for Enhanced Data In

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

To Carm Taglienti, the explosion of all things AI over the past few years has been both a pro and a con to IT teams. On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. But on the other hand, AI and generative AI in particular, as well as the speed at which intelligence barreled its way into organizations, have disrupted many IT plans, says Taglienti, chief data officer and distinguished engineer at tech firm

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Dataversity

APRIL 29, 2024

In the rush to adopt AI across diverse sectors, today’s enterprises face a common hurdle: efficient data labeling at scale. Numerous enterprises are grappling with generating usable data despite having huge amounts of raw information. Organizations are overwhelmed by the influx of image data, highlighting the need to process and label it for practical use.

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APRIL 29, 2024

European privacy rights group noyb filed a complaint against OpenAI with the Austrian Data Protection Authority on Monday, accusing the company of breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The EU’s strict privacy rules require that companies allow individuals access to personal information held about them, as well as ensuring that such data is accurate.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Applications are the backbone of modern business. And when it comes to building enterprise applications, Java has made a name for itself as the Swiss Army Knife of programming languages. Its “write once, run anywhere” philosophy has driven widespread adoption and established the platform as the backbone of enterprise applications. In fact, 50% of today’s enterprise apps are Java-based – meaning most of today’s businesses rely on Java in some shape or form.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

Luma Financial Technologies will make its annuity products available to advisors at BNY Mellon Pershing, the companies announced. Advisors who use the NetX360+ platform will have access to Luma’s products and its marketing and education tools, the companies said in a press release. Click HERE to read the full story via Financial Advisor The post Luma Makes Annuities AvailLuma Makes Annuities Available To Pershing Advisorsable To Pershing Advisors appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

If you are a CIO or CISO and haven’t yet read this article – Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer,’ you should and then share it with your entire company. It could save your company millions, and potentially much more. The incident involved scammers who, using publicly available videos and audio from YouTube of targeted senior executives, created deepfake representations to deceive a finance employee into executing multiple transactions to b

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

Lincoln National Corp. withheld information from the public about a decline in its variable universal life insurance business, an investor says in a proposed class action over a subsequent $2.6 billion quarterly loss. The November 2022 announcement of the setback at the family of companies, known as the Lincoln Financial Group, caused Lincoln’s stock to lose one-third of its value, investor Donald Meade said Tuesday.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

IT decision-makers know that generative AI is the most disruptive technology in decades and are budgeting accordingly. IDC has forecast that spending on AI solutions will grow 27% per year to $423 billion by 2027. Check out the infographic below for AI adoption predictions, including tips for staying prepared. foundry IDC’s Maureen Fleming will discuss AI adoption predictions at FutureIT Boston 2024 on May 14.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

With the rise of generative AI, there’s been a rush to incorporate AI tech into every industry, and insurance is no exception. This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of the real-world applications and strategic importance of AI and Large Language Models for life & annuity insurers. We’ll unpack the complexities surrounding AI, providing a clear roadmap for insurers who want to foster innovation while maintaining governance within their organizations.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

When Microsoft posted its quarterly earnings last week, its CFO Amy Hood said that customers wanted more cloud compute for their AI workloads than the company could supply. “Near-term AI demand is a bit higher than our available capacity,” Hood said Thursday, during a conference call to discuss the company’s quarterly results for the quarter ended March 31.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

Annuity sellers had another very strong quarter in Q1, with $113.5 billion in sales, 21% higher than the first quarter 2023. Click HERE to read the full story via INN The post Annuity sales up 21% in the first quarter, LIMRA reports appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Every day, hundreds of organizations conduct competitive bids to pick the best supplier to meet their needs. But what happens when they rely on the wrong tools to do so? A common pitfall is what University of Tennessee researchers have coined the Outsourcing Paradox — which is when a buying organization procures goods or services from a supplier expected to be the expert and then tells them how to do the work.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

View the current openings: Business Systems Analyst/Tech Support and Customer Service Advocate. Click HERE to learn more about Legacy Marketing Group. The post Industry Job Openings: Business Systems Analyst/Tech Support and Customer Service Advocate. appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Atos may have found a way to alleviate its ongoing debt problems: The French government has offered to pay up to €1 billion ($1.07 billion) for the part of its business handling contracts vital to national security, but stops short of full nationalization of the company. French Minister of Finance Bruno Le Maire said that the government had manifested its interest in acquiring all of Atos’ sovereign activities.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission voted Tuesday to finalize its rule banning employers from using noncompete clauses in almost all circumstances. The Chamber of Commerce has already filed a lawsuit in federal court to overturn the rule. Under the FTC’s final rule, existing noncompete agreements would no longer be enforceable for the vast majority of employees after the rule’s effective date—120 days after publication in the Federal Register.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

In today’s competitive business setting, enterprises are constantly under pressure to maintain profitability amid challenging economic conditions. While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. By leveraging data-driven methods, businesses can optimize and reclaim operating capital from their extensive technology budgets, reducing expenses withou

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

Industry-leading digital solution ensures efficient and accurate use of Electronic Health Record data for life insurance underwriting NEW YORK–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Munich Re Life US and Clareto today announced a new digital solution, Automated EHR Summarizer , which provides an intelligent and intuitive synopsis of electronic health record (EHR) data in two formats: an easy-to-use human-readable html report and structured digital data for use in rules, models and analytics.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Carenza di competenze IT: anche nel 2024 , i talenti della tecnologia, soprattutto con skill avanzate e specialistiche, restano difficili da trovare. Fa fatica il 54,6% delle società IT in Italia, contro la media globale del 47,3%, mentre i nostri pari europei vivono situazioni simili (in Spagna è difficile per il 52,9% delle aziende IT, in Francia per il 51,2% e in Germania per il 50,6%), come emerge dal report “IT Global HR Trends” realizzato da Gi Group, in collaborazione con il Politecnico d

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

After a nearly four-decade transformative career at Nationwide, Eric Henderson , president of Nationwide’s annuity business, has shared plans to retire at the end of the year. Henderson has led Nationwide’s annuity team since 2007 and has served as President of Nationwide Annuity since 2019. Legacy of innovation & business performance Under his leadership, the business has launched innovative solutions in response to changing consumer needs, expanded its digital and technology capabilities

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SCIP

APRIL 29, 2024

SCIP Insights Intelligent Solutions for Sustainable Waste Reduction In a world struggling with the challenges of overconsumption and environmental degradation, the need for sustainable waste management has never been more vital. Traditional approaches to waste reduction often fall short of effectively addressing the complexities of modern waste streams.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

Pacific Life Insurance Co. describes its new flagship indexed universal life insurance offering as “aimed at affluent clients who need competitively priced life insurance protection and significant flexibility in their retirement and estate plans.” The insurer introduced Pacific Horizon IUL 2 earlier this month, touting its tax-free death benefit and tax-free distributions to help supplement retirement income.

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Alpha Sense BI

APRIL 29, 2024

Heading into the second half of 2024, venture capital investors remain cautious as they acknowledge persistent challenging dynamics in the landscape. While dry powder reserves have reached record highs, investors are wary about deploying capital with certain recent macroeconomic factors still fresh in mind. Over the last couple of years, funding activity has been affected by nearly a dozen interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve Bank, the highest record inflation in four decades, market vola

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

OLDWICK, N.J.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a+” (Excellent) of Symetra Life Insurance Company and its subsidiary, First Symetra National Life Insurance Company of New York (New York, NY), together referred to as Symetra Life Group.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

After six months, 20,000 public comments, and threats of a lawsuit, the Department of Labor has issued a final rule updating fiduciary status for retirement advisors. Although the regulation is fundamentally similar to the initial proposal, officials say they made some small but significant changes in response to public comments. Click HERE to read the full story via Barron’s The post The DOL Fiduciary Rule Is Final.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Most publicly traded life and annuity issuers must release their quarterly results within 40 days after the end of each of the first three quarters and annual results within 60 days after the end of the year. The first quarter: Many banks have already posted their results. UnitedHealth, the health insurance giant, put out its numbers last week. Life and annuity issuers opened the curtains Monday, when Ameriprise Financial reported that “notable” growth in sales of registered index-linked annuit

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Wink Intel

APRIL 29, 2024

Officials at the U.S. Department of Labor say they have narrowed the scope of the investment advice fiduciary definition. Department officials posted a preview version of the final rule Tuesday. The final rule is set to go in the Federal Register, an official government regulatory publication, Thursday. If implemented as written, it will affect how regulators apply the Employee Retirement Security Act fiduciary requirements to people and companies that help retirement savers manage the assets

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