Impact
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Within the Impact facet, Medium impact intelligence highlights articles where the expected effect level, operational exposure, or decision relevance is comparable. Readers can use the page to separate routine market updates from higher-consequence governance, infrastructure, security, and investment signals that may affect planning, procurement, policy, or customer exposure. The page connects the consequence band to public evidence, related organisations, regional context, operating dependencies, service continuity, competition, investment timing, compliance, and customer risk. It helps readers decide which developments deserve deeper monitoring, which actors are most exposed, and how a signal may affect operations or market planning.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
UK aims for fully self-driving cars by 2026
The UK aims to have fully self-driving cars on the roads by 2026, as long as manufacturers comply with new laws.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
NVIDIA sidesteps U.S. export rules, makes new chip series for booming China market
NVIDIA has announced a new chip series for China, getting around U.S. export rules.
Global Cloud Services Trends
5 top tech stories this week: November 10, 2023
Elon Musk’s new project xAI is launched and Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty, among other stories.
Global Cloud Services
Is it all about the money? How NFT gaming’s principal appeal could also be its downfall
NFTs came, they soared, but will they conquer the gaming world? NFT games appeal to those who value ownership, but the rewards aren’t always easy.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Flipkart’s billionaire founder hopes to become world’s AI service provider
Bansal aims to harness the vast population of English-speaking youth in India to create a pool of experts in new AI services, in response to the global demand for AI professionals.
Companies
OpenAI launches GPT Store for personal AI chatbots without coding
OpenAI has introduced custom chatbots called GPTs, which allow users to create their own version of ChatGPT for specific purposes without coding.
Global Cloud Services
Amazon’s Olympus AI model to have twice the power of ChatGPT, release date still unknown
Amazon’s new AI product “Olympus” will have twice the parameters of Chat GPT4, but further details are so far being kept tightly hidden.
Global Cloud Services Trends
PlaiDay allows selfies and personalisation in new text-to-video AI model
Plai Labs, the brainchild of MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, has launched PlaiDay, an AI text-to-video product that can generate a three-second video for free in just a few minutes. The tool also allows users to add photos for personalisation. Plai Labs has said that the video…
Global Cloud Services Trends
As Bitcoin wavers, smaller tokens like XRP, SOL, INJ soar
Bitcoin, recognised as the first and most famous cryptocurrency, has long been the bellwether of the digital currency market. This position may be sliding however as smaller tokens become increasingly noteworthy. Among these underdogs, Ripple’s XRP, Solana (SOL) and Injective…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Virtual headsets in space aid astronauts’ mental health
Astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be the first to use the immersive videos of Earth environments to offset the mental health repercussions of long periods of isolation in space.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
China AI startup 01.AI valued at $1B in eight months
A new LLM from China called Yi has attracted massive interest and investment after outperforming established models like Meta’s Llama 2.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Elon Musk to integrate xAI with X in preparation for ‘AI age’
Musk proposed unprecedented innovation of combining xAI with social media X.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Car of the future? Huawei enters smart car industry with dazzling AITO M9
The Huawei AITO M9 took 370 pre-orders on the day it was released, comes in both pure electric and petrol-electric hybrid models, and will release in December, priced at $70,000-100,000.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Can FTX be saved? Silicon Valley’s Proof Group thinks so
Proof Group becomes third to enter bidding for FTX’s revival, FTX must decide to sell the exchange or seek strategic partners.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Monster Hunter Now Hits 10 Million Downloads: A New AR Giant Rises on the Gaming Horizon
’Monster Hunter Now‘hits 10M downloads, £14M revenue in its first month, challenging “Pokémon GO” with Niantic’s AR tech and global appeal.
Global Institutional Trends
Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.AI hits $1 billion valuation, leads open-source AI models
While they continue to open source some models, 01.AI’s ultimate objective is to establish a state-of-the-art proprietary model that can serve as a foundation for a diverse range of commercial products.
Global Cloud Services Trends
XAI, artificial intelligence led by Musk, launches ‘Grok’
Grok is currently in the early beta phase with just two months of training. It is available to a limited number of users for testing before a broader release. Musk revealed that Grok would eventually become a feature of X Premium+, which comes at a monthly cost of $16.
Global National Telecom Trends
Disney to acquire Comcast’s 33% stake in Hulu for $8.61 billion
Disney to Buy Out Hulu Stake Owned by Comcast, Will Pay $8.6B or More
Global Cloud Services
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on seven charges including fraud and money laundering
Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of FTX, convicted on fraud and money laundering charges.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Pokemon GO will bring together AI and AR to create hyper-realistic Pokemon interactions
Pokémon GO Gaining More Realistic AR & 3D Mapping from Niantic Real World Platform