Email deliverability specialist mailX has purchased mailbox warm-up vendor mailwarm. The firm hopes to build “the world’s #1 email deliverability ecosystem,” which seems charmingly modest compared with most AI vendors’ goal of world domination.
The Minions are great, but when it comes to truly valuable data, nothing beats live humans. Salesforce-owned Slack is reinforcing the point by blocking other firms from searching or storing Slack messages. The company cites customer privacy, although some observers suspect the real purpose is denying data to AI rivals.
Kepler Group, a marketing agency, is introducing a new feature to its Kepler Intelligence Platform. Kip AIR (AI Recommendations) will score a brand’s organization of product data for its likelihood to get noticed and ranked by AI shopper bots — because shoppers aren’t all human any more. It’s yet more acknowledgment that AI search results are becoming more important than traditional search.
The web search tool Perplexity looks like it’s taking on Google with its latest release, a web browser named Comet. Comet claims to move “from browsing to thinking,” surfacing information and search results in response to natural language queries. Comet is available immediately to Perplexity Max subscribers; others can join a wait list.