PwC employees have 100,000 ChatGPT Enterprise seats. Plus, OpenAI forms a new safety and security committee in their quest for more powerful AI, and seals media deals.

TechRepublic identified the top five emerging cloud technology trends that businesses in the U.K. should be aware of this year.

More remote work and a focus on resource planning are two trends driving changes in project management software in APAC and around the globe. Celoxis’ Ratnakar Gore explains how PM vendors are responding to fast-paced change.

The EU AI Hub, launched by AI security firm Cranium with KPMG and Microsoft, provides businesses with the tools and expertise they need to ensure their AI offerings are compliant with new regulations.

Major breakthroughs were made in global nations’ AI safety commitments, AI safety institutes, research grants and AI risk thresholds at this month’s AI Seoul Summit.

Data cloud company Snowflake’s Arctic is promising to provide APAC businesses with a true open source large language model they can use to train their own custom enterprise LLMs and inference more economically.

OpenAI added a desktop ChatGPT application for macOS with GPT-4o. Separately, all ChatGPT users have access to Memory and some other features for free.

Anthropic opened a window into the ‘black box’ where ‘features’ steer a large language model’s output.

Other announcements included a Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows, GitHub Copilot Extensions and the general availability of Azure AI Studio.

The Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11, which ship in June, will be able to run Copilot features on-device.

During a keynote event, Microsoft also announced more AI-related news, including AI-optimized creative apps and that GPT-4o will be available soon on Copilot.

Five new laptops use the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series processor to run AI. Dell AI offerings expand with NVIDIA, Hugging Face and others.

BT estimates that "tech paralysis" — where companies delay tech investment due to the stress it might bring — could cost the U.K. economy £11.79 billion by 2030.

Inspect is the first AI safety testing platform created by a state-backed body to be made freely available to the global AI community.

Cisco’s Splunk acquisition was finalised in March 2024. Splunk’s Craig Bates says the combined offering could enhance observability and put data to work for security professionals in an age of AI threat defence.