Is there a prize for first acquisition of the year? If so, Account Based Marketing vendor Terminus just won it by announcing they’re buying BrightFunnel, which specializes in B2B marketing analytics and attribution. It’s pretty far from Terminus’ core business in targeted display ads, which just shows the extent of their ambition to become a full service B2B marketing platform.

Or should we go full retro and predict the rebirth of TV? Quite possible, so long as a it’s a modern, interactive TV that’s as good at spying on you personalizing your experience as your computer or mobile device. Here’s a Wall Street Journal article on three companies leading the way.

Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike.  Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else.  Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed.  It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.