AI company Perplexity bids to merge with TikTok to avoid ban: report
O'Leary Ventures Chairman gave an update on the TikTok bid on “The Craman Countdown.” Artificial intelligence (AI) company Perplexity AI is reportedly interested in merging with TikTok US to help the video-sharing platform avoid a ban in the country. CNBC reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that the bid for the platform's Chinese parent […]
Perplexity AI CEO offers to help NY Times overcome tech strike
The president of controversial startup Perplexity AI has made a bizarre offer to help The New York Times Company while its tech workers are on strike — The Gray Lady This comes just weeks after he threatened to sue the company for “illegal use” of the article. Aravind Srinivas, CEO of the Jeff Bezos-backed startup, […]
NY Post, Wall Street Journal sue Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity AI
The parent company of the Post and Wall Street Journal has filed a lawsuit against Jeff Bezos-backed artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI, accusing it of engaging in “massive illegal copying” of the publications' copyrighted material. . News Corp. subsidiary NYP Holdings and Dow Jones filed a joint lawsuit against Perplexity AI in federal court in […]
Amazon probing AI startup Perplexity for scraping sites without permission
Amazon is investigating the controversial AI startup Perplexity for allegedly violating its cloud division’s rules by improperly “scraping” content from other websites without permission, according to a report on Friday. Perplexity, which was recently valued at $3 billion, is said to be ignoring a well-known web standard called the Robots Exclusion Protocol (commonly known as […]