“Despite their heroic work to date, financial services firms will face the same competitive and regulatory challenges in 2019 as in the past years. Navigating around the three-headed beast—competitive disruption from other established firms, fintechs and new digital-only banks—represents another big issue. Thus the overarching mission for at least the next year involves digital transformation….
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Sunday Cartoon
Do you remember the comics in the Sunday paper? Are you old enough to remember when newspapers were delivered to your driveway…frequently late and occasionally soaking wet. There aren’t many comics on the topic of AI, but I was able to find one for today. Happy Selection Sunday / St. Patrick’s Day https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2019/mar/16/stephen-collins-on-googles-deepmind-cartoon
Self-driving cars begin transporting groceries to Texas homes
“Two Kroger markets in Houston are rolling out a self-driving car program, in which orders can be placed online and delivered right to your home without a driver. The delivery service was conceived by the robotics company Nuro, founded by two ex-Google employees. Kroger and Nuro began working together last year for a trial run in Scottsdale,…
Here’s how Workruit, the Tinder for jobs, is working to make hiring hassle-free
“Like? Swipe right. Don’t like? Swipe left. Location-based social search app Tinder made meeting people easy as pie. Manikanth Challa, 26, a graduate of Penn State University, wondered if the same idea could be applied to recruitment and launched mobile recruiting platform Workruit in May 2017. Any job-seeker or recruiter can register on the platform…
PagerDuty IPO: Is AI The Secret Sauce?
“PagerDuty refers to itself as the central nervous system of a digital enterprise. This means continuously analyzing systems to detect risks but also to find opportunities to improve operations, increase revenues and promote more innovation. “We apply machine learning to data collected by our platform to help our customers identify incidents from the billions of…