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Fostering Innovation at Discover Financial Services

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Innovation is about modernization, it’s about optimization,” said Dan Gisolfi, Distinguished Engineer, Head of Innovation and Intellectual Property at Discover Financial Services. “It So, how does a digital bank like Discover empower engineers to continuously generate, test, and launch new ideas?

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Why entrepreneurs claim there’s no better place to do business than Puerto Rico

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A college internship in Puerto Rico with Microsoft gave him the spark of an idea, and after working for six months in IT for a bank, also located on the island, he saw his opportunity. Additionally, any intellectual property developed in Puerto Rico is protected by U.S. And both customers and investors that are U.S.

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What are the main challenges CISOs are facing in the Middle East?

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As the overall banking public in Saudi Arabia and worldwide becomes more cashless, more incidences of online financial crime continue to be reported. The sector also holds customer data and intellectual property which is typically very sensitive information and held on trust.

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Micro Logic: High-performance Canadian sovereign cloud for a hybrid future

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More than a decade of sovereign cloud experience Relied on by numerous government agencies in Canada and enterprises in sectors like banking and healthcare, Cirrus builds on more than a decade of experience offering a fully sovereign cloud that addresses the most demanding requirements for compute, storage, and networking performance.

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Lawsuit claims IBM falsely used mainframe sales to boost AI, cloud businesses

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In that case, filed in March last year, Gerald Hayden, an ex-IBM employee, accuses IBM of theft of trade secrets and intellectual property. Briccetti is currently adjudicating another ongoing lawsuit filed against IBM.

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Getting specific with GenAI: How to fine-tune large language models for highly specialized functions

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Moreover, challenges around data privacy and recognition of intellectual property often require a level of transparency that simply does not exist in many off-the-shelf models. Historically, such a migration would have been a multi-year, multi-million-dollar exercise.

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Tech leaders weigh in on the upside and flipside of generative AI

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The system listed only about 70% of his CV, and simply invented a period at a well-known bank. “We And in terms of intellectual property risks, IDC’s Ward-Dutton says oganizations’ own IP can leak into the public domain if they aren’t careful when using public generative AI services.