Browsing: Practices

Amazon.com illegally raised prices for advertisers by surreptitiously raising the minimum price required to place ads that promote their products, the US Federal Trade Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court Monday.

On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems. The models—intentionally running without cyber safeguards for evaluation purposes—accessed the internet due to a misconfiguration inside a third-party evaluation environment. Separately, on August 4, the UK AI Security Institute reported an incident from its own cybersecurity testing,…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to sue Amazon on Monday, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal. Officials say the company quietly raised the minimum price sellers paid for ads on its store. The practice earned Amazon tens of billions of dollars over seven years.

Consumers generally accept dynamic pricing as basic demand and supply, but once a business starts to layer in an individual’s data to determine the cost of a product, consumers lose trust.

From drafting emails to analyzing data, small and medium-sized businesses worldwide are adopting AI tools to save time and boost efficiency. 

Data models map the relationships between data entities and attributes in a way that “captures the business meaning of data,” according to consultant Peter Aiken. And they need to change as the makeup of an organization’s data changes, he said in a Dataversity webinar on data architecture and data modeling best practices.

Sustainability professionals are scrambling to understand how AI adoption will impact environmental goals. This tracker covers the latest resources for measuring and taming the technology’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions, land use, freshwater and other concerns.

According to a 2025 LinkedIn report, data analysis remains one of the top five most in-demand skills across industries. But just knowing the theory isn’t enough. Employers today want proof that you can work with real-world data, clean it, manipulate it, and tell meaningful stories from it.

A customer relationship management (CRM) system is only as good as the habits you build around it. Simply adopting one — even a modern solution with the most advanced AI capabilities — doesn’t automatically translate into great customer management.