Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape its algorithm Sean Bur...
Source: Perplexity AI made a TikTok US bid to ByteDance, proposing a merger that brings video to Perplexity, with ByteDance investors retaining their stakes
Elon Musk, Kevin O'Leary And More—Could Buy TikTok As Ban Starts Taipei Times : Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok US Fortune : Perplexity said to submit bid to merge with TikTok's US unit...
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about the ingestion prior ...
A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions
Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . X: @timkendall_path , @rosenzweigj...
Some tech CEOs are turning to friendly podcasters like Lex Fridman as a way to “go direct” and avoid traditional media, which they view as unfairly critical
and avoid traditional media https://www.bloomberg.com/... @business : Tech CEOs are finding that Lex Fridman and other friendly podcasters help them get their messages out—and avoid traditional media ...
Tech CEOs looking to “go direct” and avoid traditional media, which they view as unfairly critical, turn to friendly podcasters like Lex Fridman
Tech CEOs have a growing set of ways to sidestep traditional media. But first... Don't press Threads: @parkert . X: @business , @samidhas , @samidhas , @dannygroner , @martyswant , @garrytan , and @...
During oral arguments, SCOTUS justices seemed reluctant to strike down Texas' and Florida's social media laws, but raised concerns about companies' 1A rights
Update Tim Wu / New York Times : Big Tech's Latest Power Grab: the Constitution Washington Post : A roundup of the oral arguments made in the Supreme Court for two cases involving Florida's and Texas'...
The lawsuits against tech companies could shape what copyright means for AI, or simply serve as leverage for plaintiffs to secure more favorable licensing deals
The bar for fair use is typically that the new work doesn't compete with the original. … X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “If the NY Times successfully argues that reading a third party article to hel...
Source: Microsoft is demoing Bing chatbot to ad agencies, saying it plans paid links within the chatbox responses and industry-specific ads
Kevin Roose at the New York Times had a long chat … Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : The ChatGPT-fueled battle for search is bigger than Microsoft or Google Mastodon: Jesse Baer / @misc@m...
Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew
Digiday : Tweets: @mattmcgee , @martyswant , @mehdirhasan , @timgatt , and @dimensionmedia See also Mediagazer Tweets: Matt McGee / @mattmcgee : Purely anecdotal, but it seems to me that my tweets wi...