CoreSite offers the sublimely obvious news that most businesses (82%) expect to use more AI in the next five years.  Almost as obvious: high speed data access is important for AI.  One surprise is the most respondents (40%) cited customer experience as the highest potential AI benefit, just nosing out improved network/IT performance (39%), which leads in most surveys of this type.  Results for current deployments are more typical: CX (30%) and marketing (32%) rank lower than IT and cloud operations (42%), network operations (39%) and customer care (42%).

Apple is another company whose twitches can make shatter a market.  It flexed its muscles this week with new App Store rules that force sellers to let it collect a commission on payments to boost social media posts and to sell Non-Fungible Tokens.  Here’s TechCrunch’s take on what it all means.

T-Mobile will allow advertisers to target more than 20,000 screens in 11,000 store locations. That’s a lot of screens, but how much foot traffic does the average T-Mobile store get? It’s also linking up with streaming media company Plex as a CTV partner.