Weekly DaaS Roundup for October 10

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October 10, 2024

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The burden of compliance with non-financial regulations (eg GDPR) is falling more onto CFOs of companies, with smallest firms reporting feeling the most impact. With numerous states expected to roll out further requirements, expect the paper pushing to intensify.

The era of wild west content scraping is on it’s way out with OpenAI announcing it’s deal with Hearst to pay for the content of Hearst’s 40+ media properties to continue training its models.

BVP with a great summary of why healthcare is the most likely industry to have tangible and immediate AI benefits. Per the article “Healthcare produces 30% of the world’s data”.

The company has seen continued growth and strong M&A activity, yet the stock is trading still well below its' 2021 heights. Public DaaS is hard.

We sat down with today’s sponsor Kirk McKeown of Carbon Arc to learn why changing the data consumption model is as pivotal today as the Black-Scholes model was in the 80s. “in 10 years, people will trade models and inputs, not stocks, as stock prices are just abstractions"

With the purchase of the Brazilian cybersecurity company ClearSale, Experian is clearly placing its bets on Latin America’s largest economy.

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M&A AND FUNDING

Zeta Global to Buy Marketing Tech Company LiveIntent in $250 Million Deal

The purchase highlights the importance of first party data and planning for a post-cookie world.

Truthset Raises $5 Million In Series A Funding To Bring Accuracy To Consumer Data

We wrote about the issue of junk inferences last week. Is the era of quality over quantity for consumer data finally here?

Centaur Labs Secures $16M in Series B for accurate data labeling

Accurate data labeling in health AI can be a literal life or death business.

Open source Lightdash raises $11M to create AI data analysts

Just as people operate on a need to know basis, so should AI.

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