While the company claims personal credit information was not compromised, hackers did get names, birth dates, and social security numbers.
It took a little prompting and a Reuters investigative report, but Meta’s decided teen safety could be a good thing, so it’s going to start training its AI chatbots not to engage with teen users on self-harm, suicide, disordered eating, or potentially inappropriate romantic conversations. That is of course good, although Meta could have done even better to be proactive about it.
Last week didn’t turn out so well for Google after all. Despite rumors that the EU would bow to U.S. threats, the European Commission assessed a €2.95 billion ($3.46 billion) fine for adtech anti-trust violations. Google also has to change self-preferencing practices and avoid future conflicts of interest.
One of the normal stages in the maturation of a new technology is appearance of industry-specific applications. AI agent-powered end-to-end marketing campaigns have reached that stage remarkably quickly. Case in point: Birdeye has released an agentic marketing platform for its base of multi-location brand marketers.