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In these curated InformationWeek articles, AI experts and companies that have succeeded with AI share their advice.

This Quick Study is a compilation of InformationWeek articles from the past year dealing with those varied elements that play into the changes being experienced by workers in the enterprise.

In the wake of the disruptive ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline in early May 2021, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) issued two security directives to the...

Location: Toronto, ON Alexander Hudek is Kira Systems’ CTO and Co-Founder, and leads the company’s products, technology and research departments. He holds a Ph.D and M.Math degrees in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in Physics and Computer Science. His past research in the field of bioinformatics focused on finding similarities between DNA sequences. He was heavily involved with the human genome project, helping create the first f...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On March 29, the Biden Administration unveiled the broad strokes of a comprehensive, multi-agency plan to “accelerate and deploy offshore wind energy and jobs” in furtherance of President Biden’s twin priorities of fighting climate change and rebuilding America’s infrastructure. The ambitious plan aims to deploy 30 gigawatts (30,000 megawatts) of offshore wind generation capacity by 2030. Utilizing a “whole of government” ...

Recently, the Supreme Court released its decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.  The case considers whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) preempts an Arkansas state law regulating pharmacy benefit managers’ (“PBMs”) generic prescription drug reimbursement rates.  The Supreme Court reversed and held that Arkansas’ state law regulating PBMs is not preempted by ERISA, clearing the way for stricter regulation of PBM pricing...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 15, we published a QuickStudy outlining considerations for employers to contemplate as COVID-19 vaccines become available. Among other factors, we suggested employers determine whether to require vaccinations, and we addressed the legal parameters thereof. We also raised the points that not every employee will agree to be vaccinated, the available vaccines may not prove effective for for all employees, and there is no unde...