IBM will make Pitney Bowes’ location intelligence solutions available on its “BlueMix” platform-as-a-service development environment. This will make it easier for developers to embed Pitney Bowes’ location information and services in their own mobile products.
BloomReach, a machine learning-based e-commerce recommendation platform, announced it has purchased Hippo, a personalized Web content management system. Clearly they complement each other. But in a world where everything is supposed to plug into everything else via APIs, it’s interesting to see what looks suspiciously like old-school product integration. Are they telling us that API integrations aren’t quite as smooth as promised?
The Weather Company launched Watson Ads today, the first-ever consumer use of IBM Watson technology for advertising purposes. Watson Ads let consumers interact with a brand via IBM Watson, by allowing them to ask questions via voice or text and receive highly personalized information about the brand’s advertised product or offering.
A district judge has ruled that, as a matter of law, Ross Intelligence’s use of Thompson Reuters’ Westlaw content to train its own legal research model is not “fair use” but copyright infringement. This is a revision of a 2023 ruling and leaves issues for a jury to decide. It might, however, shut down one line of defense when it comes to AI scraping of copyright material.