The'Claude crash' references the plug-in legal products added by the AI firm Anthropic to its Claude Cowork office assistant. The'Claude crash' references the plug-in legal products added by the AI firm Anthropic to its Claude Cowork office assistant. How to deal with the "Claude crash": Relx should keep buying back shares, then buy more A s the FTSE 100 index bobs along close to all-time highs, it is easy to miss the quiet share price crash in one corner of the market. It's got a name - the "Claude crash", referencing the plug-in legal products added by the AI firm Anthropic to its Claude Cowork office assistant. This launch, or so you would think from the panicked stock market reaction in the past few weeks, marks the moment when the AI revolution rips chunks out of some of the UK's biggest public companies - those in the dull but successful "data" game, including Relx, the London Stock Exchange Group, Experian, Sage and Informa.

In line with "The Great Resignation" that's swept the U.S., a new report from information-based analytics provider RELX found that 95% of respondents view hiring and retaining AI talent as a challenge. What may be the most surprising takeaway, however, regards a perceived disconnect between AI ethics and productivity. The majority of respondents (90%) believe ethical standards in the development and use of emerging technologies can represent a competitive advantage for businesses. Those in the banking industry were most likely to feel this way (95%). About two-thirds (64%) of senior executives, however, have identified existing bias in AI technologies used by their company.

With respect to AI adoption in the enterprise, what if I told you that 93% of executives believe that emerging technologies, such as AI, deep learning and machine learning, are already making their organization more competitive? You'd probably say I'm lying, right? As a corporate data strategist, it's vital that I keep on top of all significant changes in the corporate landscape with respect to AI adoption in the enterprise. That's why I love the annual report put out by RELX. It helps me keep tabs on what's really happening inside the businesses I serve, and inside the minds of the executives who run them (in a completely anonymous way, of course.)

Relx today said it has inked a deal to buy US startup Emailage for roughly $480m (£368m) as the publishing and analytics giant looks to boost its fraud prevention capabilities. Emailage, which uses machine learning technology to help clients spot fraud, is one of a number of businesses cashing in on a booming demand for cybersecurity software. Relx did not disclose the value of the deal, which was struck with its Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions division, but a source close to the company said it was roughly $480m. It is the latest in a string of acquisitions for the firm, which last month agreed to buy ID Analytics from Norton Life Lock in a deal worth $375m. Both firms are set to be integrated into Relx's Risk and Business Analytics -- its fastest-growing division.

About LexisNexis Risk Solutions LexisNexis Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced analytics to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. We provide data and technology solutions for a wide range of industries including insurance, financial services, healthcare and government. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. For more information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com

Around 8,000 technologists, half of whom are software engineers, work at RELX. Annually, the company spends $1.4bn on technology. The combination of our rich data assets, technology infrastructure and knowledge of how to use next generation technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, allows us to create effective solutions for our customers. Helping research chemists with Elsevier's Reaxys Reaxys enables the shortest path to chemistry research answers, supporting the early stages of drug development in the pharmaceutical industry, exploratory chemistry research in academia, and product development in industries such as chemicals and oil & gas. The amount of chemical information published each year is increasing exponentially, making it more and more challenging for research chemists to quickly find targeted and actionable information to help support their research.

Over the last several weeks, I've been supporting business and technology leaders with a live training series to teach them exactly how to select an optimal big data use case for their organization. In groups like this, the business benefits of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are pretty obvious to group members – yet, in most cases, the level of corporate investment in said technologies is nowhere near where it needs to be for organization's to see results. That's one of the reasons that this year's RELX survey on the impact of emerging technologies on business really caught my eye… It does a masterful job of quantifying what's happening across corporate America with respect to big data, analytics, machine learning and the business benefits of artificial intelligence. In this blog post, I'll be sharing with you some of the larger takeaways from this telling study. As I mentioned, the statistics I'll be sharing with you today were generated in a comprehensive study conducted by RELX.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the talk of the world and it features prominently in predictions for 2019 (see here and here) and recent surveys by consulting firms and other observers of the tech scene. Consumer adoption: "Smart speakers" lead the way to the AI-infused home of the future Smart speakers (e.g., Amazon Echo and Google Home) will become the fastest-growing connected device category in history, with an installed base projected to surpass 250 million units by the end of 2019. With sales of 164 million units at an average selling price of $43 per unit, total smart speakers' revenues will reach $7 billion, up 63% from 2018. In 2019, among companies using AI, 70% will obtain AI capabilities through the cloud. Cloud-based AI software and services will make it easier for companies to benefit from AI, accelerating their adoption and spreading their benefits.