The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Fairplay have written to CEO Sundar Picihai requesting Google immediately suspend rollout of its Gemini AI chatbot to young children. Concerns are the product can be very addictive and that it may violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
It’s one year since Google started showing ads in its now-familiar AI Overviews. They’ve now added them to AI Mode, a newer option that handles more complex queries. AI Mode will also offer a bespoke shopping experience, with agentic AI to track price and purchase when it fits your budget.
Composable CDP Hightouch is introducing same-session personalization, providing the ability to combine warehouse data and real-time signals during real-time interactions. It requires caching audience data outside of the data warehouse, bending the company’s “no copy” rule. This blog post explains how they do it.