Reddit has sued Anthropic, claiming its bots have accessed the Reddit platform more than 100,000 times since July 2024, when Anthropic said they would no longer do so. Reddit points to the value of being able to train an AI model on the large volume of human conversation that takes place on its platform. Anthropic denies the claims.
“Chuck it” doesn’t strike us as the most positive response to a data problem, but Amperity didn’t ask our opinion before naming their new AI agent “Chuck Data”. The new tool is intended to help remove coding bottlenecks in customer data engineering by having an AI agent do the heavy lifting based on natural language prompts. Chuck will call Amperity functions to resolve identities, tag PII and provide assistance using a LLM of choice.
Although a district judge in New York dismissed claims by publishers that the promotion of sites selling pirate copies of textbooks through Google AdSense constituted a breach of copyright, the lawsuit is not over. The judge said that claims that the ads infringed the publishers’ trademarks could proceed to trial. Key to those claims is that the ads featured images of textbook covers including the publishers’ names, such as McGraw Hill and Elsevier.
Composable CDP Hightouch is introducing same-session personalization, providing the ability to combine warehouse data and real-time signals during real-time interactions. It requires caching audience data outside of the data warehouse, bending the company’s “no copy” rule. This blog post explains how they do it.