Berlin-based Customer Data Platform CrossEngage has raised €5 million ($5.8 million) to expand its growth. The company was founded in 2015 and so far has sold to clients in Europe. It does cross channel campaigns in addition to building a unified customer database. Here’s a review.

We live in crass times but the folks at location intelligence company Cuebiq are at least trying to use their data for non-commercial purposes. They just launched a “Data for Good” initiative that makes anonymous location information available to universities and other nonprofit organizations for things like improving quality of life and natural disaster response. Cuebiq gathers data on 61 million monthly active U.S. smartphone users through over 180 mobile apps.

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.