A U.S. district court judge has ruled that Google acted to create illegal monopolies in online advertising technology in a way that blocked competition and allowed higher ad prices to be charged. Google will appeal; meantime, the government will decide what to ask the court to do to remedy the monopoly. Google also faces a new U.K. antitrust lawsuit over its dominance of search.
Or maybe you’re an analyst or service agent who figures AI can’t do your job because so much involves “swivel chair integration” between disconnected systems? Sorry, mate: Microsoft has begun rolling out Copilot Vision, which can interact with any browser or app window on your screen. It has also introduced a feature in Copilot Studio for businesses to build AI agents to interact with browsers and apps.
HubSpot will acquire omni-search AI tool Dashworks to accelerate the responsiveness of marketing, sales and service AI assistants to internal business queries. Dashworks responds to internal natural language questions by scouring business information, from CRM to apps, emails, documents, tickets and meeting notes. Dashworks will combine with HubSpot’s existing Breeze Copilot feature.
Databricks is highlighting its interest in marketers through out-of-the-box integrations with partners including Adobe, Braze, Salesforce, MessageGears, and Tealium. All will be able to run campaigns using information in the Databricks data intelligence platform without data syncing or copying.