The California Journalism Preservation Act (not yet in force) will require digital platforms to pay a “journalism usage fee” for linking to news stories. Google’s response: remove links to California news websites. Facebook has taken similar measures in several countries and a new report suggests that the result is memes taking over from hard news.
Despite Adobe repeatedly stating that AI image generator Firefly was not trained on images scraped from the web, a report by Bloomberg states that some of the training data included AI-generated images from competitors like Midjourney. Adobe has said a relatively small amount of images from competitors — around 5% — was used. Given the amount of training data that must have been used, 5% is still a lot of images; and Adobe has millions of image assets of its own.
The data of 7.5 million customers of BoAt, which bills itself India’s top audio and wearables brand, has been exposed and has surfaced on the dark web, according to Forbes. Leaked data includes personal information including names, addresses, customer IDs and email IDs and may expose customers to phishing, fraud, and identity theft.
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).