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Highrise AI Introduces New Chief Technology Officer, Former Head of AI and R&D for the IDF Sigma Branch, Mark Mendelman
Highrise AI ("Highrise" or the "Company"), an AI infrastructure platform and subsidiary of Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ, TSX: HUT), today introduced its new Chief Technology Officer, Mark Mendelman. A veteran defense technologist and AI systems architect, Mark leads the development of Highrise's cloud platform, which combines bare-metal performance with full-stack orchestration for AI workloads.
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