It’s no longer news when a vendor adds artificial intelligence to its products. But you’ll probably still be interested to learn that Oracle has added a slew of AI-based apps to its customer experience solutions. The sales and marketing parts use AI to select the most relevant personalized content for individuals.

Local weather is one type of data that even LinkedIn doesn’t have.  But IBM does, through their acquisition of The Weather Company.  They’ve now connected Weather Company data to LiveRamp’s IdentityLink Data Store, making it easier for marketers to use real-time local weather information for personalized marketing and advertising.

Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike.  Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else.  Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed.  It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.