Enterprise IT
Outgoing US Army CIO Dr Raj Iyer has joined software firm ServiceNow as Head of Global Public Sector. He leaves after a well-regarded and highly modernising two year stint overseeing a $16 billion annual IT budget (including ~$3 billion in software and $1.5 billion in hardware costs) for 1.
Failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) UK has been sold to HSBC for £1 in a major reprieve for the UK's tech startups who faced losing their deposits (over the insured threshold) after its parent company collapsed. "Customers of SVB UK will be able to access their deposits
UK plans to relax some protections under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in its revised Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, after a round of external consultations. The proposed changes reduce requirements around the processing of personal data where it is used for “legitimate interests”, aim to clarify
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OpenAI is making its ChatGPT API and Whisper API available to companies so they can incorporate the AI chatbot and speech-to-text capabilities into their products – Instacart, Snapchat and Spotify are all early adopters. ChatGPT API terms and conditions meanwhile emphasise that users can't deploy the ChatGPT API to
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