European AI companies received over 11 billion euros in funding over the last year. 36% of “new unicorns” identified by GP. Bullhound’s tenth annual Titans of Tech report are in the AI space. Overall, tech funding levels have normalized at an average of 15 billion euros per quarter over the last year, around 50% higher than 2019.
Much of the public assumes journalists are using AI for tasks like writing headlines (29%) and editing (43%). However, the survey of around 2,000 people in each of six countries, including the U.S., were uncomfortable with AI being used to produce content about “hard news” topics like politics and international affairs. Almost 50% thought that an article written by AI should be labeled as such.
It was fun while it lasted, but AI vendors can no longer scrape training data from the internet without paying for it. Bowing to the inevitable, OpenAI continues to rack up partnerships with premium publishers. Following last week’s deal with NewsCorp, it has now added Vox Media (New York, The Verge, Eater) and The Atlantic magazine.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.