Tailwind provides social media and email marketing tools to small businesses.  They’ve only raised $10.7 million but have just added their seventh acquisition, paid ad management platform Nectar 9.  The goal is to offers small business owners a single tool for all types of marketing.

Cybersecurity professionals are an inherently gloomy breed, so it’s no surprise that Trellix finds 60% say they’re struggling to keep up with evolving threats.  A majority report their company lost more than 5% of revenue to security breaches in the past twelve months.   Oddly enough, just 20% say they’re working to change their security approach, which can’t bode well.

Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike.  Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else.  Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed.  It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.