The Week That Was: IT and Media news week 44
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Research shows a significant shift in election disinformation tactics. “Rather than merely targeting individual candidates, bad actors are now undermining the foundations of democracy itself ”, Ian Plunkett, advisor at communications consultancy Blue Owl Group and ex-leader of global policy communications at Twitter, now called X, writes in a guest blog for LSE.
European deep tech research and start-ups will be supported by €1.4 billion next year via the European Innovation Council, the EU Commission has announced. The decision comes after former EU central bank leader Mario Draghi in a report stressed the need for investments to secure EU growth. The Commission itself, in a recent analysis said that EU’s tech development is too slow and not on track to achieve the digital objectives and targets for 2030 set in the Digital Policy Programme.
Adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is going swiftly from testing to more integrated business solutions, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The company forecasts that European spending on AI will reach $133 billion by 2028, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.3% over 2024–2028.
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