Google continued its Very Good Week with a report that Apple may use Google technology for an AI-powered web search feature. Apple has glaringly lagged in its AI efforts, but apparently intends to build an answer engine to compete with OpenAI and Perplexity.
You won’t be surprised that the main product theme at HubSpot’s annual Inbound conference is AI, and “hybrid human-AI teams” in particular. The most CDP-relevant announcement is a new Data Hub, which uses AI to assemble, clean, and activate data from structured, unstructured and external sources.
Even Google hits an occasional speed bump: a California jury assessed it with $425 million in compensatory damages for collecting data on users who had opted out of app activity tracking. Then again, the class action plaintiffs had asked for more than $30 billion in damages so maybe that’s really a win. In any event, the result will probably be appealed.
ChatGPT is hoping to grab another slice of your attention with Pulse, a now-in-limited-preview feature that will proactively deliver daily updates on information it thinks you’ll find useful. The new service is positioned as a personal assistant that will select contents “based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.” Forget about privacy; the real question is whether this becomes a news source that gives ChatGPT the ability to shape your opinions.