Retailers are super-excited about “composable” architectures, with 91% considering it important, according to this MACH Alliance survey.  (MACH stands for Micro-Services, API-First, Cloud Native, and Headless, which is a good tech checklist for true composability.)  But just 2% say their systems are fully composable today.  The focus here is largely on in-store technology; Customer Data Platforms don’t show up in the discussion.  

A district judge has ruled that, as a matter of law, Ross Intelligence’s use of Thompson Reuters’ Westlaw content to train its own legal research model is not “fair use” but copyright infringement. This is a revision of a 2023 ruling and leaves issues for a jury to decide. It might, however, shut down one line of defense when it comes to AI scraping of copyright material.