Are autonomous vehicles coming closer or dropping back in the rear view mirror? It was two steps back today, with a giant Tesla recall due to its autopilot system not forcing users to pay attention and a 24% layoff at GM’s troubled Cruise subsidiary. On the sunny side, you can now book an autonomous Waymo ride at the Phoenix airport.
BARC’s magisterial 2024 Data, BI and Analytics Trend Monitor finds security and privacy, data quality, and governance are the top 3 industry concerns, which is similar to past results. More interesting are a slight decline in the rankings for self-service analytics (from 5th to 6th) and business user data prep (from 7th to 9th). Lots of detail here by company size, user type, best-in-class, industry, and regions.
Whether or not your new car drives itself, you can bet it will be collecting data about you. Sonatus has launched a Vehicle Personalization Solution which will enable auto users to personalize their experience and no doubt share their information with a large and ill-defined audience of other devices and businesses.
Salesforce’s Dreamforce mega-conference is next week and the company’s publicity elves are already working overtime. In the first of what are sure to be daily announcements this week, the company announced 100+ industry-specific prompts, data models, and AI capabilities across its fifteen industry clouds. It also launched an AI Use Case Library to house its industry-specific AI offerings.