No-code app builder Airtable has raised a $185 million Series D, bringing its total to $355 million. The company also announced more automation and data management features plus “low-code” custom apps that require writing JavaScript. Make of that what you will.
Facebook sues the Irish Data Protection Commission In an effort to fight losing EU data as a result of this summer’s Schrems II ruling, Facebook’s lawyers have applied to Irish judges for a judicial review. Facebook’s hope is to have regulators take a modulated approach until a new more favorable solution can be reached.
One sign that AI is taking over will be marketing campaigns designed for AI to manage. Right on cue, our friends at Facebook have limited the number of ad variations allowed per page so their machine learning tools can learn more quickly which versions work best. Did you really need yet another sign of the apocalypse?
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.