I’ll take “Minor stories that illustrate industry trends” for $200, Alex.  The answer is “Neustar offers identity resolution within the Snowflake Marketplace”.  The question is, “Is Snowflake partnering with multiple identity management vendors?”

What the heck – let’s do minor stories for $1,000.  “73% of consumers have security concerns about opening email from brands they don’t know.”   Hmm, that’s a tough one.  How about “What’s one reason more marketers are using snail mail for customer acquisition?”  Well played.

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.