Recent trends discussed include digital transformation, COVID-19 impact, remote working, and disruptive technologies like quantum physics and driverless vehicles. Machine learning techniques can help analyze large, complex datasets and make predictions. Unsupervised machine learning models can find hidden patterns in unlabeled data and group objects based on similarities. Supervised learning predicts target variables using labeled examples to train algorithms like decision trees and random forests. The machine learning process involves data preparation, algorithm selection, model training, prediction, and evaluation.