In Big Tech Behaving Badly, we have news that Google will be forced to make major changes to its Android business model in India after losing an anti-trust appeal.  Meanwhile, Twitter’s latest questionable choice is to ban third-party clients .  And Jamie from our Department of the Obvious offers this University of Southern California study finding that the design of Facebook rewards users who spread fake news.

Microsoft is in the news today for a 10,000-person layoff, but we’re more interested in cool AI stuff, right?  They recently announced general availability of Azure OpenAI Service, which will make it easier for businesses to run all sorts of advanced machine learning models.  Well, not all sorts, since ChatGPT is notably excluded.  But they promise to add it soon.

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.