The deal is part of the “Atlantic Declaration for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership”. It would allow for safe transfer of data within a framework of strong privacy protections.
The same group is blamed for other recent cyberattacks on US agencies and global organizations. The hackers exploited a flaw in file-transfer software, MOVEit and the government’s belief is the act was mostly opportunistic as data hasn’t so far been found for sale.
Three threesomes in a row sounds exhausting, but we’ll give it go. First we have three items about industry regulation. The European Parliament has passed its AI Act, which still has several hurdles to clear before it becomes law. Meanwhile, the industry-backed Partnership for AI announced that Microsoft and Meta have joined its program to set standards to protect media integrity from AI and the Digital Advertising Alliance, an ad industry group, has issued privacy best practices for Internet of Things devices.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.