The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wants to regulate how data brokers handle sensitive consumer data. Prompted by concerns about data use to power AI, the bureau is drafting a set of restrictions it plans to share in September.
It’s always obvious that leaders in every department overstate their importance. The latest reminder comes from Jitterbit, which found that 75% of IT leaders say their department is the main driver of automation efforts while just 29% of marketing and human resources leaders agree. Respondents say 51% of integration projects are managed by central IT compared with just 11% managed by business departments, but remember that the majority of respondents work in IT.
The New York Times changed its terms of service to protect against use of its content for AI training. The change prohibits use of “robots, spiders, scripts, service, software or any manual or automatic device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape” its content. This follows a similar move last week by Microsoft.
Stick with me here: what if you didn’t have to write good generative AI prompts, but could instead write a prompt that would prompt you to write a better prompt? If your head hasn’t exploded yet, that seems to be the idea behind new auto-complete and rewrite features in Copilot AI for Microsoft 365. Of course, there’s a YouTube video showing how.