The UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology has appointed the Chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, Matt Clifford, to prioritise AI in the Government’s agenda for economic growth and improved public services.
Microsoft has released a report on the CrowdStrike outage that impacted millions of Windows systems, urging cybersecurity firms to reduce their use of kernel-mode code. Microsoft has anlaysed crash reports from affecting users to gain insight into the incident.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has begun a preliminary investigation into whether the collaboration between Alphabet and artificial intelligence startup, Anthropic, might be considered a merger under competition law.
JPMorgan Chase has developed a new chatbot, the 'LLM Suite', to support asset and wealth management staff. Around 50,000 employees, representing 15% of the total workforce, now have access to the platform.