I got excited when I saw the headline announcing Sift’s new “insult monitor”, since it would be so helpful to have a system collect and present the best insults from across the Web. Unfortunately, they were referring to the “insult” of mistakenly rejecting legitimate transactions as fraudulent. But I can dream.
Am I the only one who suspects that all those offices left empty while everyone works from home are actually swarming with robots who are writing press releases about themselves? That would explain why today’s news is all about AI. First up: mobile customer engagement platform Sinch has purchased ChatLayer.ai, which builds multi-lingual, multi-channel conversation-bots that are clearly smarter than I am.
Yes, that’s clickbait. But it’s still a real story: tech giants may share location data that would otherwise be private to trace the contacts of coronavirus patients. Whether or not you think this is a good idea, the thing to remember is how easily it can be done.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.