The cost of subscribing for no ads on Facebook and Instagram has been cut by 40% in the E.U. Users that prefer the free service will also be able to request less personalized ads. Defying pressure from regulators, Meta continues to insist that offering a choice between paid subscriptions and free ad-powered access is a legitimate business model.
AI-powered marketing platform Jasper has unveiled an AI knowledge layer designed specifically for marketing and based on Jasper’s BrandIQ and MarketingIQ solutions. BrandIQ is a no-code and API based solution to bring brand guidelines into an AI model for text and image creation. MarketingIQ brings knowledge, information and best practices to the LLM.
Google might have hoped its pivot on third-party cookies would get the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority off its back: no such luck. The CMA sees competition issues in Google’s decision to allow users to choose themselves whether to allow cookies. It wants updated Privacy Sandbox commitments from Google by next month.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.