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.

Service providers have to deal with increasing complexity in their networks and services, amid what have been highly manual and ponderous service assurance deployments that almost inevitably result in visibility gaps and too much data that needs highly skilled human interpretation to resolve issues. As Charles Thompson, VP of product management at Spirent Communications with a history of more than two decades in service assurance, put it, "Service assurance for operators has traditionally been very burdensome. It's been a very big deployment, [with] multi-week, multi-month services engagement to do, to get things up and running." There's typically a highly manual process of deploying software or hardware-based test agents: Figuring out where you want them, configuring them, pushing them out and often still being left with "massive visibility gaps" as new data centers and other new network elements come online or, in a software-defined networking world, as virtual machines spin up and down and routing changes in response Spirent Communications aims to simplify and automate with the launch if a new service assurance solution, Vantage. Spirent is "hyperfocused… on the mobile core" with the Vantage release, said Thompson, and invested in the solution with an eye toward how it expects networks to continue evolving over the next three to five years: A continuing push for 5G and the use of open, cloud-native and containerized infrastructure and multi-vendor environments, combined with massive data demand, and the need to assure new use cases, features and services that have not existed before, like Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC).