After OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Bard, it was only a matter of time before Amazon followed suit. Now the company’s AWS division has unveiled its own AI-based chatbot, “Q”. The most important difference: it is not aimed at private individuals, but is designed to provide targeted support to corporate customers in IT and development, administration and project management. This could also benefit online print shops.
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They can be found on more and more e-commerce websites and in online shops: Chatbots. They answer questions about products or put you in touch with a personal advisor. Thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, they can do even more and try to understand and answer even more complex enquiries – even going as far as concluding a contract. But how legally compliant is this use? What needs to be considered?
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On November 11, Google announced that its own Search Generative Experience (SGE) will be released in more than 120 additional countries (after the USA) and in four additional languages. Even if Europe still seems to be the last “blind spot” for this expansion, it is already worth taking a look at the goals that Google is pursuing with it.
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We have known since the pandemic and the countless online stores that have emerged since then that Shopify is not merely an interesting and simple solution for entering the world of e-commerce. The e-commerce platform is also increasingly becoming an interesting field of activity for print shops – keyword dropshipping – and other providers from the printing industry.
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It has been three years since Christoph Behn retired from the operational management of the Celebrate Company and founded the business angels association Better Ventures. But now he is returning – and taking over for Co-CEO Patrick Leibold, who will be leaving the company at the end of 2023 after six years.
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Those who run an online store are often also represented within online marketplaces such as Amazon, Ebay or Etsy in order to expand their own reach – and thus their sales. Luxembourg-based startup MarketLeap has developed an AI-enabled e-commerce system that addresses this very point.
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Digital documents are increasingly becoming the default option in European legislation and communications. Against this digital-only approach, the leading European print and paper industry associations have now joined forces and issued a joint statement.
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The Directive on distance contracts for financial services will be adopted tomorrow. As the name suggests, this directive makes or revises provisions on loans and other financial services. However, it also contains a completely unrelated provision on the right of withdrawal for remote sales contracts. The new obligation introduces a cancellation function for digitally concluded sales contracts.
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Google is the name given to anyone who is looking for information, products or service providers. With almost 9 billion search queries per day and a global market share of almost 92 percent, the search engine developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the mid-1990s is the most important access point to the World Wide Web. Exactly 25 years ago today, Google went online with the first search index at google.com.
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Johannes Gutenberg is regarded as the inventor of printing with movable metallic letters and thus as the founder of modern letterpress printing – at least in Europe. This is because a collection of Buddhist teachings appeared in Korea 78 years before the world-famous Gutenberg Bible, and was also already printed with metallic letters. A collaborative research project has now set itself the task of finding out more about this.
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