Google Cloud has launched a public beta for Recommendations AI, an ecommerce recommendation engine offered as a managed service. It scales to millions of catalog items and can be retrained daily. But if it’s really so clever, why is Google is offering everyone the same $600 credit to try it?

You’re probably not surprised that better data leads to better business results, but would you have guessed that better privacy practices correlate with fewer data breaches? Our friends at privacy tech vendor Osano rated 11,000 Web sites and found sites with the weakest privacy were twice as likely to be breached and lost seven times as many records when they were. Something to bear in mind when you’re deciding which companies can be trusted with your data.

CDP Simon Data has announced the launch of Goals-Based Marketing, initially featuring an AI-powered segmentation workflow. The ultimate goal of this approach is to create revenue-generating customer experiences at scale. The new offering is driven by three AI agentic teams (Strategy Agents, Data Execution Agents, and Revenue Impact Agents) and features Smart Fields and Smart Segments, aimed at uncovering customer behavior patterns.