Another day, another lawsuit claiming an AI firm stole publisher data. The latest has Canadian gen AI firm Cohere being sued for breach of copyright by fourteen major publishers including The Guardian and Condé Nast. The complaint alleges that Cohere has used the publishers’ content to train its AI systems and then generate results that compete with the publishers’ own offerings.
SAP has announced a Business Data Cloud that will embed Databricks solutions for data engineering, machine learning and AI workloads to unify SAP and third party data across the enterprise. It’s more than a CDP since it involves more than customer data. The unified data layer will also support SAP’s Joule copilot AI agents.
The success of retail media has paved the way for the rise of commerce media, says a new report from eMarketer, sponsored by LiveRamp. Commerce media includes retail media and similar initiatives from non-retail vendors such as financial services, travel, and commerce intermediaries like Instacart and Uber Eats. Ad spend on financial media networks, for example, will reach $35 million in the U.S. this year, and more than quadruple by 2026.
Preliminary findings by the European Commission state that Apple and Google are in violation of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Among the findings, Google Search is accused of prioritizing Google’s own products and services in results; Apple is instructed to improve interoperability between iOS and third-party devices. The companies now have an opportunity to respond.