The UK's world-leading creative industries have been given a fresh boost in their fight to stop Big Tech companies'stealing' their work. US-based computer services and cyber security firm Cloudflare has introduced a tool which blocks Silicon Valley giants from mining creative works for free. Titans of entertainment, including Sir Elton John, Lord Lloyd-Webber and Dua Lipa, have been locked in a battle with ministers as artists demand better protection from the bots. The Government last month defeated an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill by Baroness Kidron, director of Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, after weeks of ping-pong between the Commons and the crossbench peer's growing number of supporters in the Lords. But Cloudflare's latest innovation will give publishers and website owners greater control over their intellectual property, allowing them to choose whether they want AI companies to access their content.

When ChatGPT was released late last year, people around the world suddenly awoke to the major advancements going on in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). For many, what once seemed like a science fiction fantasy was now reality. In truth, the technology behind the groundbreaking chatbot had been brewing behind the scenes in research labs and major tech companies for years. But refined and released in its most accessible form yet, ChatGPT stands to herald in a transformational age of AI adoption. ChatGPT, and other generative AIs like DALL-E, which can create original text and images from a simple prompt, won't just transform education. It will reshape the way people conduct business, create art and do research. Commentators have likened what's coming to the next Industrial Revolution: one in which the role of humans may radically change. While ChatGPT and DALL-E are both products of OpenAI, an American research company, other Silicon Valley giants have been moving quickly to show they're capable of similar technology. With names like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta and even Baidu capturing international headlines for their generative AI offerings, it's easy to forget that the foundational principles upon which these technologies rest were developed in large part by Canadian scientists.

A visit to DMart or Reliance Retail in India on any given day would make one think about Black Friday sales. The limited manpower in stores often falls short to tend to the swarm of shoppers in Indian retail stores. To solve the issue, Scribble Data strives to provide automated and customised solutions for retail businesses to tend to the demand and needs of every customer that walks in through their door. The startup offers retail chains real-time inventory management, identifies customer shopping trends, and provides personalised recommendations. Scribble Data helps businesses build machine learning (ML) applications for making their daily operations hassle free and for creating more market-worthy ML features.

One area that the Commission is particularly concerned about is facial recognition. At the moment, the processing of biometric data in order to identify people is illegal in most cases, under data privacy laws. However, the EU is now looking at whether there should be certain exceptions. Speaking to journalists in Brussels, Margrethe Vestager, the EU's head of competition policy, said: "Artificial intelligence is not good or bad in itself, it all depends on why and how it is used." In an exclusive interview with CNBC Tuesday, Vestager said that the EU is taking a "double-sided" approach where it will enable this technology, while also ensuring it's not harmful to EU citizens.

Google has all but removed a core principle from its employee code of conduct and people are taking notice. For the last 18 years, the Silicon Valley giant has put the phrase'Don't be evil' front and center in its code of conduct as a way of demonstrating that it wants Googlers to strive to do the right thing. That has since changed, however, as Google updated its code of conduct to only briefly mention the phrase, according to Gizmodo, which first spotted the move. Google has all but removed a core principle -- 'Don't be evil' -- from its employee code of conduct. In previous iterations of its code of conduct, Google dedicated several paragraphs to the principle.

Apple war has reached a turning point with the inclusion of the Google's new Pixel phone. The Silicon Valley giant is making waves in the mobile industry with its patented smartphone that blows artificial intelligence assistant Siri out of the water. In a showdown of giants, it seems Google is chalking up this round under their bedpost, as Apple scrambles to get the iPhone 7 back into the mainstream's top of mind. Pixel's main champion in the ring is not the hardware or the design, which by today's standards is nothing new or innovative. Anyone with the right tools can make a new phone, but the playing field evens out with the software add-ons they include in the package.