Verdict has listed five of the companies that trended the most in Twitter discussions related to disruptive tech, using research from GlobalData's Technology Influencer platform. The top companies are the most mentioned companies among Twitter discussions of more than 513 disruptive tech experts tracked by GlobalData's Technology Influencer platform during the second quarter (Q2) of 2022. OpenAI's text-to-image engine DALL·E 2 not understanding some mysterious language, and the company's release of GPT-3, a new generative language model, were some of the popularly discussed topics in Q2. Spiros Margaris, a venture capitalist and board member at the venture capital firm Margaris Ventures, shared an article on the artificial intelligence (AI) company, OpenAI, having found its text-to-image engine DALL·E 2 to show peculiar behaviours, including something that may be hidden or a fictional language. According to Giannis Daras, a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, the AI model produced an artwork when given the input "apoploe vesrreaitais eating Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons", which makes no sense to humans but the machine generated images of birds eating bugs constantly, the article detailed.

Buying a house is stressful, expensive, and time-consuming. Not only is it the biggest purchase you will make in your life, but it is also considered as one of the most anxiety and stress-inducing. Technology has been working hard to solve many of the issues and shortcomings of the housing and property market. Various emerging technologies including AI, blockchain, and automation have been working hard to streamline the process, and just make things work a bit better. Blockchain has found a variety of use cases in different industries and sectors.

Nestle, a multi-conglomerate that has been leading the Food and Beverage industry for more than 150 years now, has made its mark in the digital space. The giant has been leveraging disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced data analytics, blockchain, augmented reality, and many more to enhance business prospects and provide a better customer experience. Nestle's digital transformation journey can be traced back to 2018. Recently, Nestle expanded its AI efforts by introducing a new tool known as'Cookie Coach'. Nestle USA launched this virtual bot to provide answers to queries regarding their Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Technologies like AI, blockchain, cognitive computing, and advanced data analytics will be a boon for the judicial system in many ways. Countries are even thinking about robot judges.

France's Lyon became one of the few cities in the world (after Perth) to test run driverless shuttles. The city located in eastern France aims at experimenting the first public transport servicing done by an electric, driverless and 100% autonomous vehicle. The shuttle service will be provided by Navya, a French company specialising in developing innovative, smart and sustainable solutions. NAVYA develops driverless, automated electric vehicles that are independent of all infrastructure. These vehicles are a smart mode of transport and are therefore for the benefit of all citizens and society.

As a part of the tech in Techstory, we bring you the latest in the technology from around the world under "TECH THIS WEEK!" every Sunday! This week we saw Mozilla's multi-process architecture finally cleared for takeoff and Apple's initiative Apple Energy to become an energy company. We also saw launching specs of much anticipated Bluetooth 5.0 and the announcement of AlphaGo's next duel with Go champion Ke Jie. In case, if you've missed any of those, along with how scientists have planned to reduce global warming, don't worry just keep reading! Mozilla's long-running project to bring multi-process architecture to hundreds of millions of Firefox users has finally met release criteria for a full-scale rollout. Nearly every other browser on the market has adopted multi-process architecture, splitting tabs and extensions into separate processes.