Google’s much-criticized Privacy Sandbox had some good news yesterday when Microsoft said it would add preliminary support for the Privacy Sandbox APIs across Microsoft Advertising products. Microsoft Edge has also introduced an Ad Selection API allowing advertisers to select and deliver relevant ads to users without relying on third-party cookies.

Rejecting shareholder demands that it divest Segment, Twilio announced a plan to continue selling it as a stand-alone product, integrate it more closely with its other offerings, increase growth, and cut costs.  New layoffs are almost sure to follow, on top of a 25% company-wide staff reduction in the past two years.   The company reports that Segment lost $72 million in 2023, despite 7% revenue growth to $295 million.

Stick with me here: what if you didn’t have to write good generative AI prompts, but could instead write a prompt that would prompt you to write a better prompt?  If your head hasn’t exploded yet, that seems to be the idea behind new auto-complete and rewrite features in Copilot AI for Microsoft 365.  Of course, there’s a YouTube video showing how.