Microsoft turned out to be next in line after Apple to feel the wrath of European regulators. A preliminary finding holds that Microsoft has breached anti-trust regulations by tying its collaborative platform Teams to its business suites, Office and Microsoft 365. As with Apple, Microsoft faces a potential fine up to 10% of the company’s annual worldwide turnover.
Innervate has announced three AI-powered enhancement to its app suite (it describes itself as a CDP but it’s not clear it creates a separate CDP database). The new tools are real-time customer segmentation, dynamic product recommendations and buyer journey orchestration. The suite also includes a “digital twin” for all known and unknown customers, designed for personalized recommendations and next-best actions: a kind of AI-boosted customer profile.
AI-powered video generation startup HeyGen has raised $60 million in Series A funding. Its special power is generating videos from natural language prompts, without those pesky cameras, casts and crews. The funding will support the product roadmap, but also security, AI ethics and trust.
With only eight days left until President Trump’s executive order reprieve of TikTok expires, Pew Research reports that only 34% of U.S. adults now support a ban, down from 50% two years ago. The number that believe TikTok poses a security threat has dipped ten points over the same period. Support for the ban has also declined in both parties.