Quick Custom Intelligence (QCI) announced that a major deal brokered by Gaming Dynamics will add more than 15 venues in the Australasian market, as a part of QCI’s global expansion. QCI is a leader in the slots tooling industry and in data integration solutions.
The on-going Twitter train wreck, now with extra drama from Threads, is another story we can’t cover in any depth. Some developments you may have missed: Website Planet found Threads posts get more engagement than posts on Twitter; an Ipsos poll found 58% of Americans who use Twitter have tried Threads or are likely to; and, in a characteristically childish and incompetent move, Twitter has made an ineffectual attempt at blocking links to Threads.
Grow Finance, which Australian Financial Review named the fastest-growing Australian company in 2020-21, will launch its first credit card, in partnership with Pismo. The new Mastercard will be available there in September.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.