The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) regulator is advocating for governmental action to protect app developers from having to paying the massive 30% fees imposed by Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store. The fees make it difficult for developers from other companies to compete and they place a burden on consumers who must pay higher prices for products when costs are passed on.
Digital Realty, a renowned global provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data center solutions, is already a major player in the industry. In India, they’ve teamed up with Brookfield Infrastructure to create top-notch, well-connected data centers that cater to the needs of local enterprises and digital service companies.
Meta has been ordered to pay A$20 million (US$14 million) for not being transparent enough with customers about how data would be used by subsidiaries, Facebook Israel and Onavo Inc. The company was found to have used data for market research and acquisition targets, but not stating that information prominently in its product advertising, though disclosures were made in the terms of service and privacy policy.
ChatGPT-4o is the latest model released by OpenAI and available to all (including free) users. The “o” stands for “OMNI,” reflecting the model’s capabilities for voice and image as well as text. For marketing teams, this might mean one source for genAI capabilities rather than switching between LLMs and solutions specifically focused on visuals.