The country’s deputy prime minister indicated multi-pronged incidences, including hackers accessing names and addresses of voters, and attempted reconnaissance on lawmakers were conducted.
A new bill signed by Florida Governor DeSantis is poised to ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental consent for accounts for teens ages 15-16. Expectations are the bill will face legal challenges from tech companies, but if it stands it would be one of the most restrictive social media bans for children and would set the stage for similar legislation in other states.
At its Connect conference, relationship marketing platform Optimove announced new capabilities, including for its AI-powered analytics and predictive platform OptiGenie. These feature generative AI insights into customer behavior, self-optimizing streams to help deliver personalized experiences and OptiLive, real-time personal messaging. They also announced a new WhatsApp integration.
Google’s search market share has dropped below 90% for the first time since 2015 according to web traffic analysis platform Statcounter. This does not necessarily signal a migration of users to AI search, since Statcounter compares search traffic only among the main search engines. The likes of Bing and Yandex are still way behind Google.