Thought Leadership
Dr. Thomas Thiele is responsible for the AI Competence Center in Central Europe. His main areas of activity include digital transformation projects that combine strategy and implementation, as well as machine learning and AI in real-world applications.
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Provider of research and development software
Siemens is strengthening its research and development activities. A lot of money is being spent on a US company.
Media report
The deadline set by Donald Trump for a solution to the future of Tiktok in the USA is approaching. Another contender with deep pockets is said to have emerged on the home straight.
Germany affected
Security researchers from Kaspersky have discovered a particularly sophisticated variant of the Triada Trojan on imitation Android smartphones. More than 2,600 users worldwide, including in Germany, are affected.
Instead of 16
Broadcom is significantly increasing the minimum requirements for VMware licenses. According to VMware distributor Arrow, the minimum number of cores required will increase from 16 to 72 from April 10.
With fake references
A single North Korean agent operated with twelve different identities in Europe and the USA at the same time, while other IT employees were specifically looking for jobs in Germany and Portugal.
Complex, multi-stage tasks
On Monday, Amazon announced Nova Act, a universal AI agent for browser control for simple tasks. At the same time, the company is releasing the Nova Act SDK for developers.
A treasure trove for cyber criminals worldwide
Massive data leak at Samsung Germany: around 270,000 customer service tickets were apparently posted on the Internet by a hacker using the pseudonym “GHNA”. The incident could probably have been prevented with basic security measures.
Money for "Stargate" project
The ChatGPT developer OpenAI has secured 40 billion dollars from investors for further growth. The unprecedented financial injection brings the total valuation to 300 billion dollars, as OpenAI announced.
The invisible danger
More and more free file converters on the Internet are turning out to be treacherous traps. The FBI warns of manipulated online tools that not only convert files, but also smuggle malware or even ransomware onto victims’ computers. Converters for documents, music files and file mergers are particularly affected.
Hanover Fair
Microsoft is presenting new virtual assistants with artificial intelligence for widespread use in industry at the Hannover Messe. The “Factory Operations Agent” is one of the software company’s trade fair innovations.
Service failure
The short message service X (formerly Twitter) once again recorded significant outages on March 30, 2025. According to the incident reporting portal DownDetector, several hundred thousands were received from affected users.
Takeover
The Twitter successor X is also losing its formal independence in Elon Musk’s empire. The platform will become part of his AI company xAI – and is likely to provide a lot of training material for the software.