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COMPANY NEWS:  New AI-powered tool Hotwire Spark designed to optimise brand discovery in AI search

Japanese telecoms and tech investment giant SoftBank Group has entered into a definitive agreement with US artificial intelligence market leader OpenAI to invest up to US$40 billion in the company.

• Snowflake strengthens strategic partnership with Microsoft to deliver OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models directly to customers in Snowflake Cortex AI on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
• Snowflake also launches new native integration enabling thousands of customers to seamlessly leverage Snowflake Cortex Agents within their Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 apps

GUEST OPINION:  The IT world is currently in the middle of an ‘AI rush,’ and we have just been hit by a new wave with the launch of DeepSeek, an open-source AI-powered chatbot that claims to rival OpenAI’s architecture. With any new artificial intelligence innovation, we must also discuss its potential data privacy impact. Coming off the recent Data Privacy Day, now is the time to take a closer look at the potential of this new AI tool and its related data protection considerations.

Today, GitLab announced the general availability of GitLab Duo Self-Hosted. This capability enables organisations to maintain full control over data privacy, security, and the deployment of large language models (LLMs) in their own infrastructure.

AI development phenomenon OpenAI and Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank Group have formed a 50:50 joint venture to develop and market an Advanced Enterprise AI system called “Cristal intelligence”, with SoftBank the JV's first major customer.

On day two of his second term, USA President Donald Trump has announced the Stargate Project - a massive half-trillion-dollar investment in artificial intelligence instrastructure in the United States.

COMPANY NEWS:  Fastly expands support to include OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry

• Manages security for both users and providers of AI services, overseeing authentication and zero trust capabilities
• Prioritises the consumption of AI services across teams, applications, and APIs
• Enables integrated automation with AI services and models from OpenAI, cloud providers, open source, and more

GUEST RESEARCH:

• 39 per cent of 16–18 year-olds are using ChatGPT
• Younger children, from the age of 7, are starting to experiment with ChatGPT

Nearly 40 per cent of 16-18-year-olds are accessing artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, according to a new report from world-leading online safety company Qustodio. 

Australia's smartphone market rebounded sharply in the first half of 2024, with sales surging 8% year-over-year to 3.98 million units, driven by Android devices, according to Telsyte's latest research.

COMPANY NEWS: Twilio, the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalised experiences for today’s leading brands, announced an integration in collaboration with OpenAI to bring the company’s new Realtime API to the Twilio platform. The integration of streaming speech-to-speech (S2S) capabilities – part of the Realtime API – will enable over 300,000 Twilio customers and more than 10 million developers to build powerful conversational AI virtual agents leveraging OpenAI’s flagship multilingual and multimodal GPT-4o model.

COMPANY NEWS: Nintex, a leader in process intelligence and automation, today announced new AI-powered improvements across the Nintex Process Platform that significantly reduce the time required to document, manage, and automate business processes. The new features add to the growing portfolio of AI capabilities across the Nintex Process Platform.

Posts made on Reddit will be used for training OpenAI's ChatGPT under an agreement struck between the two companies.

COMPANY NEWS: Sysdig, a leading provider of cloud security driven by real-time insights, has unveiled AI Workload Security, a new capability aimed at identifying and managing active risks associated with AI environments. This addition to Sysdig's cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) is tailored to empower security teams to gain visibility into their AI workloads, spot suspicious activity in real time, and ensure compliance with emerging AI guidelines.

Microsoft decided to invest in OpenAI after a warning from a company official that Google had taken a big lead in the technology, Ars Technica reports.

New features for New Relic AI monitoring include expanded application language support, security and privacy controls, and real-time user feedback integration to help organisations use AI with confidence

GUEST OPINION by Jeff Wagner, Solution Architect, Datacom: It was the Sora video of golden retriever puppies playing in the snow that tipped me over the edge into mushy awe at what the latest AI model from OpenAI is capable of.

Consumers are embracing Artificial Intelligence in the smartphone market, with preliminary data suggesting that successfully messaging and marketing ‘halo’ AI features in devices can help influence consumer behaviour, according to the latest Worldpanel ComTech study from marketing data and analytics company Kantar.

COMPANY NEWS: DataStax, the generative AI data company, today announced a milestone in its journey to simplify enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for developers by integrating with Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Companies often have hundreds of existing applications that they want to bring into the AI world.