Lob – which is Bol spelled backwards – provides software and a print delivery network to streamline personalized direct mail production.  They just raised their own $50 million Series C, bringing total funding to $80 million (according to their Web site) or $121 million (says Crunchbase).  If they also claim to have a CDP, I missed it.

CDP Exponea announced API-level integration with data quality and enrichment services from Acxiom.  The deal isn’t unique: Acxiom also lists integrations with Adobe, Boxever, Tealium, and Treasure Data.  But it’s still worth noting that tighter integration of CDPs and third party data vendors is becoming more common.  You may recall that Exponea was purchased last month by recommendation engine vendor Bloomreach.

If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.