The folks at Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) are in a sour mood, judging by this report.  They find that actions from Apple, Firefox, and others have already removed half of the “signal fidelity” once provided by third-party identifiers, with even greater losses on the way.  Yet IAB sees state-level privacy regulation as an even greater threat.  Worse still, companies are doing a poor job in getting ready for the new situation.   Color them glum.

The criticism keeps coming. Snap reports that companies are failing to take proper advantage of Augmented Reality (AR), by not recognizing that customers want to use it for practical applications such as shopping, learning, and entertainment.  Meanwhile, IntentHQ says failure to utilize existing data is costing telcos millions of dollars in potential revenue. Is cranky the new black?

Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content.   But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines.  Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results.  We’ll see if competitors do the same.