IPOs may be hard to find but venture funding still happens fairly often.  Latest deal is a first-time external raise of $20 million for Beamer, which helps companies manage product engagement by sending announcements to customers and collecting their feedback.  As product-led growth becomes more important, this sort of tech will creep closer to the center of the martech stack.

t was fun while it lasted, but the “how cool is that?” stage of generative AI adoption is now being replaced by the boring work of figuring which products are best for your purpose.  Arthur is making things a bit less painful with Arthur Bench, an open source tool to compare performance of large language model systems.  They’ve also published the first in a series of comparisons among popular products.

Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content.   But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines.  Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results.  We’ll see if competitors do the same.