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Global Cloud Services Trends
Meta’s $1.4B payout in landmark Texas privacy case
OUR TAKEThat $1.4 billion settlement by Meta is nothing short of a “mega-fine” in the tech world, reminiscent of Google’s own painful payout for privacy breaches in the past. It’s not just about the money; it’s a loud and clear wake-up call to all tech giants: stop treating…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
C5i expands AI capabilities with Analytic Edge acquisition
OUR TAKEC5i acquired Analytic Edge, a marketing analytics firm, which can improve C5i’s capabilities in data-driven marketing solutions with Analytic Edge’s expertise in analytics to improve client offerings. This acquisition of Analytic Edge aligns with C5i’s focus on…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Symbotic shares plummet amid sluggish robotics deployment
OUR TAKESymbotic’s significant share decline reflects investor concerns over rising costs and slower automation deployment impacting near-term financial performance. However, with strategic improvements and major stakeholder investments, the company anticipates a return to…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Huawei unveils nova Flip with a square cover screen
Huawei is gearing up to unveil a new foldable phone, the nova Flip, featuring a unique square external display.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
SpaceX eyes Australian waters for Starship rocket landings
OUR TAKESpaceX is in talks to land and recover its Starship rocket off Australia’s coast, aiming to expand its presence and strengthen U.S.-Australian space and military cooperation, which reflects a strategic move to enhance its testing capabilities and solidify international…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Apple joins Biden’s AI safety initiative with major tech giants
OUR TAKEApple signed onto Biden’s AI safety commitments, becoming another major tech giant to join this initiative after Google and Microsoft. Apple’s participation was expected to strengthen the management of AI risks, encourage more companies to adopt responsible AI development…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Apple unveils training details of Apple Intelligence models
OUR TAKEThe technical paper describes the training process of the AI models it has developed for Apple Intelligence, making it clear that the models are trained on publicly available and licensed datasets, ensuring that no private user data was used, thus emphasising its…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Meta releases AI Studio for enhanced social interactions
OUR TAKEMeta Platforms has launched AI Studio, an innovative platform that not only allows users to design and share personalised AI chatbots, but is also specifically targeted at Instagram creators, enabling them to leverage AI personas to automate day-to-day interactions such…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Logitech CEO introduces the Forever Mouse with AI integration
OUR TAKEIn a recent edition of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber shares the company’s long-term plans and vision for one of its flagship products, the Forever Mouse. Faber emphasises that, through careful design and constantly updated software services, the…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Privacy-enhanced wearable AI: Bee AI
OUR TAKEBee AI, a startup focused on developing a wearable AI assistant, has closed a new round of funding to advance its innovative project. The device aims to provide highly personalised services such as smart reminders, note organisation and contextually relevant suggestions…
North America Institutional Trends
U.S. supports open AI models and proposes risk oversight
OUR TAKEThe U.S. Department of Commerce has released a report in support of open-weighted generative AI models, such as Meta’s Llama 3.1, and recommends that the government develop new capabilities to monitor the potential risks of these models. The report highlights that open…
Global Cloud Services Trends
‘Forgetting’ techniques in AI impacts efficiency
OUR TAKE“Forgetting” techniques for AI models are designed to make AI models forget specific and unwanted information learned in training data, such as sensitive private data or copyrighted material. The study finds that current “forgetting” techniques can impair their ability to…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Canva bolsters AI with Leonardo.ai acquisition
OUR TAKECanva has announced the acquisition of Leonardo.ai, a generative AI content and research startup, to bolster its AI technology stack. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but it involves a combination of cash and stock. Leonardo.ai’s entire team…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Automation required to combat the AI content harvesters online
OUR TAKESThe article focuses on the problem of AI content harvesters crawling large amounts of data on the Internet and how website owners can block access to these harvesters by updating their robots.txt files. At the same time, the article highlights that with the rapid…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Apple iOS 18.1 beta adds AI call recording and transcription
Apple’s iOS 18.1 beta introduces an AI-powered feature to record and transcribe phone calls, automatically saving the transcription and audio in the Notes app.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Tesla Premium Connectivity: Boosted navigation and entertainment
Tesla’s Premium Connectivity offers enhanced navigation with live traffic visualisation and satellite-view maps, as well as streaming media for an immersive entertainment and internet experience.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Meta unveils AI Studio for personalised chatbot creation
Meta introduces AI Studio for creating and sharing personalised AI chatbots using Llama 3.1.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Chinese solar firm forced into bankruptcy as supply glut bites
OUR TAKEChina’s solar industry is in dire straits. Companies like Zhejiang Akcome New Energy Technology are really feeling the heat from oversupply and price cuts. This is causing a lot of smaller companies to go bankrupt, and there’s a big push for these companies to merge to…
Global Datacenter Trends
What is retail colocation? A guide to shared data services
Retail colocation offers a strategic advantage to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing access to advanced data centre technologies without the high costs typically associated with such infrastructure. As digital technologies become increasingly critical to…
Global Datacenter Trends
What is colocation trading? Speed up the financial markets
Colocation trading is a key high frequency trading (HFT) strategy whereby financial firms locate their trading servers in the same data centres as the electronic trading platforms used by financial exchanges. This proximity is key to dramatically reducing delays in data…