Google might have hoped its pivot on third-party cookies would get the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority off its back: no such luck. The CMA sees competition issues in Google’s decision to allow users to choose themselves whether to allow cookies. It wants updated Privacy Sandbox commitments from Google by next month.
The cost of subscribing for no ads on Facebook and Instagram has been cut by 40% in the E.U. Users that prefer the free service will also be able to request less personalized ads. Defying pressure from regulators, Meta continues to insist that offering a choice between paid subscriptions and free ad-powered access is a legitimate business model.
AI may be intelligent but it’s not always smart. Researchers at Cornell have shown that AI agents that understand visual interfaces (like a computer screen) can easily be fooled by adversarial pop-ups into clicking buttons or filling forms. Pop-ups that would look very suspicious to humans just don’t trigger the same response from naive AI.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.