The New York Times filed suit on Friday against AI search startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. This marks the second lawsuit The Times has brought against an AI company. They join several other media outlets currently suing Perplexity, including the…
The launch of Hamlet was quite personal for Sunil Rajaraman. Back in 2022, he ran for city council in a small California town. He lost, but the experience forever changed the way he saw his community and local governments. He…
The European Commission has imposed its first fine under Europe’s landmark Digital Services Act, and it is against Elon Musk’s X. The EC is taking issue with the fact that X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has been…
Nearly a decade ago, when the energy storage market was in its infancy, an industry organization set an ambitious goal: deploy 35 gigawatts of batteries connected to the U.S. grid by the end of 2025. The storage industry has not…
Meta has signed commercial AI data agreements with several news publishers. These agreements will allow its AI chatbot, Meta AI, to offer real-time global, entertainment, and breaking news. When users ask Meta AI news-related questions, it will now surface information…
In one of the most groundbreaking deals the streaming world has ever seen, Netflix announced on Friday its acquisition of Warner Bros. with an enterprise value of $82.7 billion. This agreement involves both HBO Max and the HBO studio, marking…
Petco, a major provider of pet products and services, disclosed a data breach in a filing with California’s attorney general on Wednesday. The company states the incident involves the personal information of its customers. A sample notification letter published by…
Six years ago, I asked Sam Altman at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco how OpenAI, with its complicated corporate structure, would make money. He said that someday, he’d ask the AI. When everyone snickered, he added, “You can laugh.…
In its latest retreat from India’s crowded online retail market, the Walmart-backed fintech giant PhonePe has wound down its Pincode e-commerce app. The company will now shift the business toward providing B2B services for offline merchants. On Thursday, PhonePe founder…
The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit against the AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday, alleging copyright infringement. The suit was filed in a federal court in New York. According to the complaint, the Tribune’s lawyers contacted Perplexity in mid-October to…
