Department of Justice officials reportedly will ask a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser, which gives Google access to data that is critical to its ad business. This follows the judge’s ruling in August that Google operates an illegal monopoly in the search market. But don’t sell that Alphabet stock quite yet: years of appeals lie ahead, and the new administration in Washington could change the DOJ position.
No job is safe from AI. Sophisticated fraudsters who spent years honing their craft now face competition from novices using no code fraud technology platforms to execute easy and cheap swindles. So says Sumsub in a 133-page that analyzed 3 million fraud attempts to find enough irresistibly horrifying details for a year’s worth of nightmares. There’s even a 2025 Fraud Forecast.
You get an agent, and you get an agent, and you get an agent — everybody gets their own AI agent using 1,800 large language models that Microsoft is making available to enterprise customers. Preview announcements at Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 conference included pre-built autonomous agents, no-code agent-building tools, and AI-powered app creation assistants. Microsoft’s AI eco-system may be the largest: some say, “no one else is close.”
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).