The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Fairplay have written to CEO Sundar Picihai requesting Google immediately suspend rollout of its Gemini AI chatbot to young children. Concerns are the product can be very addictive and that it may violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
It’s one year since Google started showing ads in its now-familiar AI Overviews. They’ve now added them to AI Mode, a newer option that handles more complex queries. AI Mode will also offer a bespoke shopping experience, with agentic AI to track price and purchase when it fits your budget.
Snowflake-oriented CDP Simon Data was warehouse-centric before “composable CDP” became a thing. They’ve now continued at the cutting edge of the industry by renaming themselves Simon AI and adding a slew of AI features for personalization and agent-based workflows.