Fulcrum SaaS, a campaign CDP that focuses on real-time personalization, announced a $5 million funding round, bringing total funding to $7 million.  Fulcrum makes heavy use of automated segmentation, recommendations, and campaign flows, seasoned with a heavy dose of AI.

Google has granted permission for publishers to use Lotame’s cookieless identifier, Panorama ID, within its Encrypted Signals for Publishers (ESP) program. ESP (get it?) lets publishers share an encrypted ID based on first party data to buy and track audiences. The ID is based on a cross-device identity graph maintained by Lotame and has been adopted by more than 18,000 publishers.

Like trouble, bad behavior by Meta shows up whether you look for it or not.  The latest is an open-source language model that was supposed to provide reliable search results because it was trained on academic papers.  Alas, it was quickly withdrawn after reviewers found that it returned results that were grammatical and plausible but also incorrect, not to mention filled with “antisemitism, homophobia, and misogyny.”  How can this be a surprise?