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Delaware daily roundup: AI isn’t that new; Delaware Earns launches early; Prelude Therapeutics grant

Plus, inside the tech at a Philly cheese vending machine.

IMAGE OF THE DAY: URBAN WILDLIFE REFUGE (HOLLY QUINN)

Is AI new or just another tech platform?

Chris Wink recently went to the HR Tech company Phenom’s users conference analyst day and watched its team in action.

“As one Phenom staffer put it: The era of a hiring manager matching a person’s resume to a job description is ending,” Chris writes in this week’s colum, “because now generative AI tools like ChatGPT can essentially match any person’s resume to nearly any job rec. New solutions are necessary, they argue — though I am skeptical of the endless arms race of more technology being introduced to hiring.”

➡️ Read Chris’s full column here.

Tech powers Philly’s 24/7 cheese dispensary

24-hour cheese? Yes please! Technical.ly freelancer Kiki Aranita dives into the tech behind Perrystead Dairy’s Philly cheese vending machine, a sight more common in the Alps than Kensington-meets-Fishtown.

➡️ Read Kiki’s report here.

News Incubator: What else to know today

• The small employer retirement savings pilot Delaware Earns is launching early. [Delaware Business Now]

• University of Delaware is adopting Toltech anatomy tables, allowing students to study in 3D. [UDaily]

• The state granted Prelude Therapeutics approval to early access $2.6 million in government funding.  [Delaware Business Times]

• More than 160 seniors from all four New Castle County vo-tech high schools will be officially committed to the workforce after graduation. [DelawareOnline]

🗓️ On the Calendar

• Tuesday, May 14 — Delaware School Board Elections [Details here]

• Wednesday, May 22 —  Tech Forum’s AI in DE Event at Theatre N [Details here]

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