iPerceptions, a global leader in research and audience solutions, today announced that it has acquired Datacratic’s Ad Tech business, a leading real-time audience optimization and segmentation Ad Tech Suite. iPerceptions’ acquisition further solidifies its position in the machine learning and audience data space by providing the most accurate first and third party audience intent segmentation capabilities available on the market.

Episerver™, a provider of a single platform to smartly manage digital content, commerce and marketing in the cloud, today announced the acquisition of Optivo, a provider of omnichannel campaign management and customer intelligence solutions….

Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.