CoreSite offers the sublimely obvious news that most businesses (82%) expect to use more AI in the next five years.  Almost as obvious: high speed data access is important for AI.  One surprise is the most respondents (40%) cited customer experience as the highest potential AI benefit, just nosing out improved network/IT performance (39%), which leads in most surveys of this type.  Results for current deployments are more typical: CX (30%) and marketing (32%) rank lower than IT and cloud operations (42%), network operations (39%) and customer care (42%).

Apple is another company whose twitches can make shatter a market.  It flexed its muscles this week with new App Store rules that force sellers to let it collect a commission on payments to boost social media posts and to sell Non-Fungible Tokens.  Here’s TechCrunch’s take on what it all means.

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.