Google gets $379M fine from France; $425M in US class action

Google had a bad fall kick off, tackled with a €325 million ($379 million) fine from France’s CNIL for not obtaining user consent for tracking. (Clothing retailer Shein was fined €150 million [$175 million] in the same ruling.) Plus, Google must pay $425 million for collecting user data after customers disabled a tracking feature. On the bright side for Google, it evaded $31 billion in damages plaintiffs wanted.

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Two CompTIA analyses offer contrary takes on how AI will impact tech employment: one finds lower employment right now while the other projects strong growth over the next ten years. Somewhat similarly, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff says that AI agents allowed his company to cut 4,000 support jobs while ServiceNow president Amit Zavery says AI hasn’t reduced his headcount but did let workers do a better job, resulting in higher customer satisfaction. Benioff also said that Salesforce will be entering the IT services business, perhaps because he feels AI will make... Read More >

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Mind if Anthropic changes the rules on how its AI tool Claude uses your data? Well, not up for discussion: the new plan is for your conversation to train its AI and for Anthropic to keep your data for up to five years. You do have the option to opt-out by September 28.

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One of the normal stages in the maturation of a new technology is appearance of industry-specific applications. AI agent-powered end-to-end marketing campaigns have reached that stage remarkably quickly. Case in point: Birdeye has released an agentic marketing platform for its base of multi-location brand marketers.

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