DeepSeek, the Chinese company that just sent shockwaves through the tech industry with its announcement of a chatbot to rival ChatGPT and similar products at a fraction of the price, is now being flagged by privacy regulators. Italy and Ireland want answers about the platform’s processing of their citizen’s data, and Taiwan has banned use of the app by public sector workers and at key infrastructure locations.
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In an experiment from Google’s search labs, AI agents are offered who can “wait on hold for you.” The Ask for Me tool will call local businesses on your behalf to set up appointments or collect information on product availability and pricing. Ask for Me can be enabled on Search Labs now and will maybe put a lot of concierges out of work.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has the authority to direct national data supervisors. In this case, the EDPB, which had challenged the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s decisions in three suits, told the regulator to further investigate GDPR violations by Meta and WhatsApp.
Tofu has raised $12 million in Series A funding to support the ongoing development of its AI-powered unified marketing platform. Identifying worsening “martech bloat” as a problem for GTM teams, Tofu is proffering its platform as an integrated marketing solution with gen AI embedded. This intended to avoid the adoption of multiple AI-related tools with overlapping functionality.