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If you’re looking to follow the money, contributor Louis Columbus examines what IT certifications offer the biggest payday for tech pros. Staff writer Sri Krishna reports on Hugging Face’s Inference Endpoints and how the AI-as-a-service offering is designed to take on the biggest enterprise workloads. Krishna also covers how Colossal Biosciences, the company that breathed new life into the wooly mammoth, is spinning off a new company to offer its life platform that bridges the gap between data and discovery to other companies. 

Senior editor Sharon Goldman digs into deep fakes and how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology are spreading misinformation. Goldman also chats with LinkedIn’s VP of engineering and head of data and AI about how she lands top data science talent.