Consumers are used to product recommendations from eCommerce sites that are based on their history of purchases. Amazon is expanding this concept to suggest a shopper’s next buy based on their passions. Called “Interests,” this new tool will match shoppers with products and deals relevant to what they love to do. For example, avid golfers get a heads-up about the latest golf clubs, or book lovers will be notified about new novels from their favorite authors. Shoppers create prompts to tell the artificial intelligence (AI) what they’re interested in and the assistant will be on the prowl looking for products and deals to suggest. Consumers can set price limits and preferences in natural language

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SOCi Inc. , the leader in AI-powered marketing solutions for multi-location businesses, today announced it has been named to G2's 2025 Best Software Awards , placing #63 on the Best Global Software Companies list. In addition, SOCi placed #48 on the Highest Satisfaction Products list and #28 on the Best Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Products list."The SOCi platform has revolutionized how multi-location businesses tackle their most pressing marketing challenges, automating complex workflows across search, social media, and reviews," said Ben Brownlee, Chief Customer Officer, SOCi. "Today, we serve nearly 1,000 brands and manage marketing for 3.7 million business locations. Our customers' success is our success, and we are proud to be a trusted partner in scaling their local marketing strategies."SOCi's trailblazing technology, including its proprietary Genius AI™ and suite of Genius Agents™, continues to set the standard for empowering brands with unmatched digital visibility and customer engagement

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Facebook creator and Meta CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg shook the world again today when he announced sweeping changes to the way his company moderates and handles user-generated posts and content in the U.S.Citing the “recent elections” as a “cultural tipping point,” Zuck explained in a roughly five-minute-long video posted to his Facebook and Instagram accounts this morning (Tuesday, January 7) that Meta would cease using independent third-party fact checkers and fact-checking organizations to help moderate and append notes to user posts shared across the company’s suite of social networking and messaging apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads.Instead, Zuck said that Meta would rely on a “Community Notes” style approach, crowdsourcing information from the users across Meta’s apps to give context and veracity to posts, similar to (and Zuck acknowledged this in his video) the rival social network X (formerly Twitter). Zuck cast the changes as a return to Facebook’s “roots” in free expression, and a reduction in over-broad “censorship.” See the full transcript of his remarks at the bottom of this article.Why this policy change matters to businessesWith more than 3 billion users across its services and products worldwide, Meta remains the largest social network to date. In addition, as of 2022, more than 200 million businesses worldwide, most of them small, used the company’s apps and services — and 10 million were active paying advertisers on the platform, according to one executive.Meta’s new chief global affairs officer Joe Kaplan, a former deputy chief of staff for Republican President George W. Bush — who recently took on the role in what many viewed as a signal to lawmakers and the wider world of Meta’s willingness to work with the GOP-led Congress and White House following the 2024 election — also published a note to Meta’s corporate website describing some of the changes in greater detail.Already, some business executives such as Shopify’s CEO Tobi Lutke have seemingly embraced the announcement