European regulators started worrying about AI well before ChatGPT burst on the scene. Their head start let a key committee in the European Parliament pass a well-considered draft AI Act this week. The law would segment AI applications into four risk levels and set different requirements for each.
Not every data integration story involves AI. Here’s the more straightforward news that data integration and analytics platform Qlik has closed its acquisition of data quality vendor Talend. Both firms are owned by private equity investor Thoma Bravo. The deal is apparently part of Qlik’s plan for an IPO, which was quietly revealed in January.
This Sitecore survey of U.S. digital marketers found that 84% felt AI should be regulated, although only just 22% want the federal government to do the job. Four out of five (80%) respondents have experimented with generative AI and a charmingly optimistic 82% think AI will lead to more jobs. In other news, 85% plan to add composable software to their martech stack.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.