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Business Wire
4 days ago
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O'Reilly AI Academy Named 'Enterprise Learning Solution of the Year' in 2025 EdTech Breakthrough Awards Program
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- O'Reilly, the premier learning platform for technology professionals, today announced that the O'Reilly AI Academy has been selected as winner of the 'Enterprise Learning Solution of the Year' in the annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by EdTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies and solutions in the global educational technology market. The O'Reilly AI Academy provides tailored learning tracks to ensure individuals can acquire the skills to build a strong foundation in generative AI, facilitating GenAI upskilling across an entire organization. One of the primary learning tracks, GenAI Essentials for Everyone, focuses on a comprehensive range of skills including prompting fundamentals and enhancing productivity. Additional tracks include GenAI for Leaders, GenAI for Business Analysis, GenAI for Executives, GenAI for HR, GenAI for Marketing, and GenAI for Project Management. The O'Reilly AI Academy's learning tracks are supported by over 300 additional pieces of content tailored by role and industry to cater to teams across security, data, finance, marketing, and project management within sectors like government and healthcare. This content includes books, audiobooks, live and on-demand courses, short-form text, and video. Learners who successfully finish these learning tracks can earn completion badges and certificates, and the badges can be embedded in email, across social media, on LinkedIn, and more. 'O'Reilly's learning platform gives teams the resources they need to drive business outcomes. GenAI is a must-have for everyone in an organization—not just tech teams. The challenge is helping team members acquire these new skills efficiently— meaning focusing only on what they need to know and in the way that they learn best,' said Steve Johansson, managing director of EdTech Breakthrough. 'Answers from O'Reilly enables active learning so users can interact with content rather than simply ingesting a stream from a book or video. As just one piece of an ecosystem of tools, O'Reilly's incredible technology serves the modern learning experience, helping users develop the skills needed to stay relevant in a changing world.' The mission of the EdTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize innovation, hard work, and success in a range of educational technology categories, including student engagement, school administration, adaptive learning, STEM education, remote learning, career preparation, and many more. This year's program attracted thousands of nominations from over 15 different countries throughout the world. 'AI won't replace humans—but humans with AI will replace humans without AI. At O'Reilly, we're building training materials about AI while also using it ourselves to build new kinds of learning experiences for learners of all skill levels and interests,' said Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly. 'We humbly accept the 'Enterprise Learning Solution of the Year' award from EdTech Breakthrough as we continue to expand our offerings to make a real difference in the arc of someone's career. We want our users to learn; and we want our users to have the educational resources they need to thrive in an AI-dominant landscape.' For more information on the O'Reilly AI Academy and to enroll your company, visit About O'Reilly O'Reilly, the premier learning platform for technology professionals, offers the industry's most extensive catalog of high-quality technical and professional skills development courses. From AI, programming, and cloud technologies to essential business skills such as leadership training and critical thinking, O'Reilly delivers highly trusted content from its network of renowned experts that meets a diverse array of learning needs, with over 5,000 role-based on-demand courses, nearly 200 live events each month, access to interactive sandboxes and labs, and more. For more information, visit
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
O'Reilly Joins Forces with Microsoft to Launch Open Source NLWeb, Enabling Simplified Creation of AI Apps Across the Internet
NLWeb Opens New Possibilities for Both Human and AI Users to Access Content Across the Internet BOSTON, May 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--O'Reilly, the premier learning platform for technology professionals, today announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to become one of the pioneers integrating Natural Language Web (NLWeb) into their websites. NLWeb's decentralized search understands context and intent, allowing both human users and AIs to ask complex, conversational questions and get relevant results without going to a centralized AI chat or search site. O'Reilly's integration will initially enable conversational search across 59,000 books, using metadata to ensure accurate results without web crawling. This naturally extends the O'Reilly learning platform's core mission of connecting diverse audiences, from individual practitioners to enterprise teams, with precisely the knowledge they need. "We see NLWeb as a crucial component of an open ecosystem of protocols and tools that will shape the next evolution of the internet," said Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly. "By implementing this technology early, we're reminding our technically savvy audience that the original promise of the decentralized World Wide Web does not need to be abandoned to get the benefits of conversational AI." "That original promise, in which anyone could provide content and services on the terms they set (free, paywalled, ad-supported or subscription, or something in between) has gradually been replaced with one in which large centralized gatekeepers control and profit from access. Content is hoovered up into giant models and provided directly to users, with less and less traffic returned to the originating sites. NLWeb is a bold attempt to reverse that trend. This means that any site can easily offer the kind of conversational search queries that might now largely be accessed via sites like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google." "Tim and the O'Reilly team have always been one of the bedrocks of the open internet—protocols, formats, code, " said Ramanathan Guha, Technical Fellow and CVP, Microsoft. "It is wonderful to be able to work with them (again) on the first step towards bringing AI to the web." To learn more about how O'Reilly is using NLWeb, please visit: About O'Reilly O'Reilly, the premier learning platform for technology professionals, offers the industry's most extensive catalog of high-quality technical and professional skills development courses. From AI, programming, and cloud technologies to essential business skills such as leadership training and critical thinking, O'Reilly delivers highly trusted content from its network of renowned experts that meets a diverse array of learning needs, with more than 59,000 books, over 5,000 role-based on-demand courses, nearly 200 live events each month, access to interactive sandboxes and labs, and more. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts Sasha DivitkinaDirector of Communications, O'Reillysdivitkina@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
19-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
O'Reilly Joins Forces with Microsoft to Launch Open Source NLWeb, Enabling Simplified Creation of AI Apps Across the Internet
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- O'Reilly, the premier learning platform for technology professionals, today announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to become one of the pioneers integrating Natural Language Web (NLWeb) into their websites. NLWeb's decentralized search understands context and intent, allowing both human users and AIs to ask complex, conversational questions and get relevant results without going to a centralized AI chat or search site. O'Reilly's integration will initially enable conversational search across 59,000 books, using metadata to ensure accurate results without web crawling. This naturally extends the O'Reilly learning platform's core mission of connecting diverse audiences, from individual practitioners to enterprise teams, with precisely the knowledge they need. 'We see NLWeb as a crucial component of an open ecosystem of protocols and tools that will shape the next evolution of the internet,' said Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly. 'By implementing this technology early, we're reminding our technically savvy audience that the original promise of the decentralized World Wide Web does not need to be abandoned to get the benefits of conversational AI.' "That original promise, in which anyone could provide content and services on the terms they set (free, paywalled, ad-supported or subscription, or something in between) has gradually been replaced with one in which large centralized gatekeepers control and profit from access. Content is hoovered up into giant models and provided directly to users, with less and less traffic returned to the originating sites. NLWeb is a bold attempt to reverse that trend. This means that any site can easily offer the kind of conversational search queries that might now largely be accessed via sites like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google." 'Tim and the O'Reilly team have always been one of the bedrocks of the open internet—protocols, formats, code, " said Ramanathan Guha, Technical Fellow and CVP, Microsoft. 'It is wonderful to be able to work with them (again) on the first step towards bringing AI to the web.' To learn more about how O'Reilly is using NLWeb, please visit: About O'Reilly O'Reilly, the premier learning platform for technology professionals, offers the industry's most extensive catalog of high-quality technical and professional skills development courses. From AI, programming, and cloud technologies to essential business skills such as leadership training and critical thinking, O'Reilly delivers highly trusted content from its network of renowned experts that meets a diverse array of learning needs, with more than 59,000 books, over 5,000 role-based on-demand courses, nearly 200 live events each month, access to interactive sandboxes and labs, and more. For more information, visit
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
O'Reilly Launches AI Codecon, New Virtual Conference Series on the Future of AI-Enabled Development
The Inaugural Event, "Coding with AI," Is Free for Everyone BOSTON, April 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--O'Reilly, the premier learning platform for technology professionals, today announced AI Codecon—a groundbreaking virtual conference series dedicated to exploring the rapidly evolving world of AI-assisted software development. The inaugural event, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It, will take place on Thursday, May 8, 2025, from 11:00am to 3:00pm ET, and is free for all attendees. Cohosted by O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly and Google's head of Chrome developer experience, Addy Osmani, the virtual conference brings together experts for fireside chats, technical deep dives, and live demos from leading developers, innovators, and technical executives shaping the future of AI-enabled development. AI Codecon represents a new chapter in O'Reilly's event offerings: high-impact, expert-led virtual conferences inspired by the practitioner community. Unlike O'Reilly's Superstreams, which are exclusive to O'Reilly subscribers, each event in the AI Codecon series will be available for purchase by nonsubscribers—and this first edition is free to maximize global tech community participation. "This isn't just another conference about AI," said Tim O'Reilly. "It's about exploring the seismic shift taking place in how software is developed. It's not the end of programming. It's the end of programming as we know it today. Through community-driven conversations, we're bringing together the people rewriting the rules of development in real time." AI Codecon is the first in a new series of O'Reilly virtual conferences that combine the immersive experience of in-person events with the accessibility of modern online platforms. Following the inaugural free event on May 8, future AI Codecon experiences will be available for purchase by nonsubscribers. Registration will be open at no additional cost for O'Reilly members. Anyone eager to explore the future of AI-enabled software development is encouraged to attend. To see the full event schedule and reserve your spot, please click here. For those interested in starting a free trial to access all available resources, visit About O'Reilly O'Reilly, the premier learning platform for technology professionals, offers the industry's most extensive catalog of high-quality technical and professional skills development courses. From AI, programming, and cloud technologies to essential business skills such as leadership training and critical thinking, O'Reilly delivers highly trusted content from its network of renowned experts that meets a diverse array of learning needs, with over 5,000 role-based on-demand courses, nearly 200 live events each month, access to interactive sandboxes and labs, and more. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts Sasha DivitkinaDirector of Communications, O'Reillysdivitkina@ Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
City hopes to begin painting road lines soon, weather permitting
SAINT JOHN – The city's road marking and line painting should begin in the next couple of weeks, weather depending, and if it seems like it fades quickly throughout the year, it's because federal regulations force the city to use water-based paint. That's what Public Works Director Tim O'Reilly told council at the last meeting when he was asked by Mayor Donna Reardon why the city uses water-based paint when it fades so quickly during the year. Federal regulations state that oil-based paint cannot be used, he said, between May 1-Oct. 15 for environmental protection reasons. And with Saint John weather being what it is, he later told Brunswick News they would not be able to use the longer-lasting oil-based paint in the timeframe allowed. The city will spend $143,730.33 plus HST – $165,289.88 – on road paint this year, according to the Public Works report. Each year city staff paints approximately 400 km of lines and 3,300 traffic markings, with yellow and white lines, bike lane lines, directional symbols and crosswalk lines on the list. O'Reilly expressed frustration at the fact that water-based paint does fade faster and said they are studying alternatives. He said the city does use a 3M tape in some areas. There's also a plastic material that is melted into the surface with a heat source. As well, they have experimented with a chemical product called methyl methacrylate, which is a two-component traffic-paint liquid that consists of a resin and a catalyst that hardens into place. 'What we've found is that with those (alternatives), they don't last any more than a couple of years, and the application cost is certainly greater than a water-based paint,' he said. 'So we just haven't found that right product that lasts longer and is more economical for us (to use) than water-based paint.' About 80 per cent of the city's paint is procured from a company called Stinson Equipment, for which the city has what is called a 'sole-source procurement.' That agreement was put into place in 2016 because the Quebec-based company provided the quality the city needed. 'Prior to that year, we had a couple of years in a row we had suppliers that provided us with paint that clogged up our machines and impeded our ability to get the painting done on schedule in those years,' he said. 'We've been sole sourcing just to that one company, which has consistently been providing us paint that works well.' O'Reilly said in the hopes of cutting down on expenses, the city opened up the bidding process last year, with 20 per cent of the paint now coming from Sherwin-Williams. Going forward, the remaining 20 per cent will be purchased by a competitive process with pre-qualified vendors.
