Amazon continues to spread its wings, or tentacles depending on your point of view. Their latest stretch is “Buy with Prime” which lets Prime members receive free delivery and returns when shopping on non-Amazon websites. Consumers get more convenience, cooperating merchants may get more sales, and Amazon gets new fees and customer data.
Our privacy newsletter ordinarily covers tools for responding to consumer data requests (DSRs to the cognoscenti). But this news is about CDP vendor mParticle adding a DSR function, so we grabbed it while the editor wasn’t looking. The new feature can send automatically data erasure requests to third-party data stores including BigQuery, Redshift, and Snowflake, eliminating one of the biggest headaches in many DSR processes.
Our friends at messaging platform Gupshup are at it again: after purchasing conversational AI platform Active.AI earlier this month, they just bought AskSid. Active.AI specializes in financial services while AskSid specializes in ecommerce and retail.
It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data. Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions. Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.