Members of the European Parliament approved a broad framework for protecting against risks from AI. AI technologies will be regulated according to their potential to do harm; the greater possible harm, the stricter the regulation. Applications that present a “clear risk to fundamental rights,” such as those processing biometric information, will be banned.

The software landscape is continuing grow year-on-year, but 2022-2023 saw a slowdown, with the growth in number of applications at 8% compared with 14% in the previous year, according to software management platform Zylo. Growth in average portfolio size and spending have slowed too. For the first time since they began tracking, Zylo found AI apps appearing in their 15 most expensed apps list.

Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP,  which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks.  Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.