Citizen developers have a new brick to hurl through IT department windows, provided by none other than Amazon Web Services. Honeycode, just launched in beta, is a new AWS managed service that lets users build mobile and Web apps with a spreadsheet-style interface. And you IT people thought AWS was your friend.

Finally, we have Vibenomics, which sells ads in retail background music playlists. You probably haven’t spent much time in retail stores recently but, trust me, it’s a thing. Vibenomics just arranged with digital out of home ad platform Vistar Media to sell their ads programmatically. It’s another example of programmatic advertising spreading beyond its original home on the Web.

“Ask Meta AI anything” is what you now see instead of the traditional search bar across Meta apps such as Facebook and Instagram. Meta AI will still perform the basic search function but will also answer questions and chat with you. It should hardly be a surprise when a tech company launches a genAI solution these days but this is a bold challenge to Google and Open.ai (it’s also available as a standalone tool at Meta.ai).