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The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement

The New York Times filed suit Friday against AI search startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, its second lawsuit against an AI company. The Times joins several media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed suit this week. The Times’s suit claims that “Perplexity provides commercial products to its own users that substitute”

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Meta signs commercial AI data agreements with publishers to offer real-time news on Meta AI

Meta has signed commercial AI data agreements with news publishers to offer real-time global, entertainment, and breaking news on Meta AI, its AI chatbot. Now, when users ask Meta AI news-related questions, it will surface information and links that draw from different content sources to help users discover timely and relevant content, the company announced

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Anthropic CEO weighs in on AI bubble talk and risk-taking among competitors

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared his thoughts on if the AI industry was in a bubble at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. This was in addition to throwing shade on one particular unnamed competitor, which was clearly OpenAI. Amodei declined to give a simple yes-or-no answer to question of a bubble, saying

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Another bid to block state AI regulation has failed…for now

The latest bid to squeeze a ban on states regulating AI into an annual defense bill has reportedly been rejected after facing bipartisan pushback.  House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said Tuesday that Republican leaders would look for “other places” to include the measure – an effort that President Trump has supported – according to

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ChatGPT referrals to retailers’ apps increased 28% year-over-year, says report

New data shows ChatGPT’s growing influence as a referrer to e-commerce websites, but also how small its slice of this market is currently. According to a new analysis by mobile app insights provider Apptopia, ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% year-over-year over the Black Friday holiday shopping weekend, running from Thanksgiving Day on

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OpenAI slammed for app suggestions that looked like ads

ChatGPT’s unwelcome suggestion for a Peloton app during a conversation led to some backlash from OpenAI customers. People feared that ads had arrived, even for paid customers. OpenAI, however, clarified that the app suggestion was not an advertisement, but instead a poor attempt to integrate an app discovery feature within conversations. In a post on

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