This is one of a number of changes and challenges Meta has seen as Facebook’s market share has dropped, in large part due to Apple’s IOS privacy changes.
The lawsuit objection was claiming that broadband companies were being treated differently than other companies, but the groups since decided that since this issue is not a factor in new state or proposed federal laws, they’ll focus advocacy efforts elsewhere.
Is there anything so sweet as helping yourself while helping others? Google just announced it will ban search ads that lead to annoyingly aggressive web sites, as defined by the industry-wide Coalition for Better Ads. The upside for Google is better customer experience should lead to higher ad rates.
Here’s a new buzzword for your Bingo card: “agentic AI”, which describes systems that act by themselves rather than in response to a prompt. Salesforce was all over the concept last week, announcing its Agentforce collection. According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without requiring human intervention.”