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Amazon Echo Owners Spend $400 More Per Year Than Prime Subscribers

Still not convinced all this matters? A study reported in this Marketing Land article found that Amazon Echo owners spend $400 more per year than run-of-the-mill Amazon Prime subscribers. (I couldn’t find the study itself.) And here’s a look from Wired at Amazon’s world domination lab, a.k.a. Alexa Voice Services. Get ready for voice-enabled lightbulbs.

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People and Process Outrank Technology as Barriers to Data-Driven Success: NewVantage Partners

January 9, 2018

Finally, we have views on “big data” from senior data and analytics executives polled by NewVantage Partners. Their top objective for big data and AI investments was analytics – no surprise given the audience – although customer experience did rank second, ahead of lower costs, innovation, and speed to market. More important: by far the biggest challenges to being data-driven were people (49%) and process (32%). Just 19% cited technology. Most surveys give a similar answer but it’s still easy to forget.

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Landmark ‘Fair Use’ Ruling in Thompson Reuters AI Copyright Case

February 13, 2025

A district judge has ruled that, as a matter of law, Ross Intelligence’s use of Thompson Reuters’ Westlaw content to train its own legal research model is not “fair use” but copyright infringement. This is a revision of a 2023 ruling and leaves issues for a jury to decide. It might, however, shut down one line of defense when it comes to AI scraping of copyright material.

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