Lane of Forbes on the issues with Perplexity’s AI
Gretchen Peck interviewed Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane about his concerns with artificial intelligence developer Perplexity and its impact on its content. Here’s an excerpt: E&P: Since you published the June 11th column, have you encountered other similar cases of your content appearing in AI-authored articles or search summaries? Lane: While other AI companies are training […]
Fortune strikes revenue sharing deal with Perplexity
Perplexity AI is launching revenue-sharing partnership with Fortune and other major publishers less than two months after some news outlets publicly accused the artificial intelligence startup of plagiarizing their stories, reports Shirin Ghaffary of Bloomberg News. Ghaffary reports, “Publishers will receive a ‘double digit’ percentage of revenue from sponsored questions that appear below results in the […]
Mashable, PC Mag union wins guarantees against AI
The editorial union for Mashable and PC Mag has successfully bargained for protections against generative artificial intelligence, reports Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab. Deck writes, “The language around AI in the contract, which I reviewed, doesn’t place specific restrictions on the way generative AI is used in the editorial process — say, whether it can be […]
The Information hires Popper to lead AI and enterprise coverage
The Information has hired Nathaniel Popper as bureau chief for our artificial intelligence and enterprise coverage. He starts July 17 and will be based in San Francisco. A story on its website states, “Popper has been at the forefront of covering technology and finance for more than a decade. He wrote ‘Digital Gold,’ an acclaimed book […]
Dow Jones acquires AI company for fuel prices
Dow Jones said Tuesday it has acquired the artificial intelligence-powered fuel pricing solutions provider A2i Systems, without disclosing financial details about the deal, reports Michal Susin of The Wall Street Journal. Susin reports, “The New York-based media company said the acquisition of the Denmark-based company will contribute to its growing suite of AI capabilities and will operate […]
News Corp CEO Thomson signals action against AI firm
News Corp. chief executive officer Robert Thomson has signaled that the company is considering legal action against at least one generative artificial intelligence firm, reports John Buckley of Capital Brief. Buckley writes, “In a nearly 2000-word memo to staff, Thomson shared further detail on the company’s approach to generative AI, which he claims has sparked a revolution […]
VentureBeat hires David to cover artificial intelligence
VentureBeat has hired Emilia David as its senior artificial intelligence reporter. She has been at The Verge covering artificial intelligence and previously worked at Business Insider covering venture capital. Before that, David was a reporter for the Venture Capital Journal, weekend editor at Cointelegraph and a reporter for Waters Technology. She also worked as a reporter […]
Perplexity plagiarizes Wired story about Perplexity
Tim Marchman of Wired magazine writes about how artificial intelligence company Perplexity plagiarized a Wired story that called the company a “bullshit machine.” Marchman writes, “After we published the story, I prompted three leading chatbots to tell me about the story. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude generated text offering hypotheses about the story’s subject but noted that they had no […]
When your business news content gets stolen by AI
Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane writes about the impact of Perplexity taking the business news organization’s content without its permission and publishing it. Lane writes, “When Forbes Executive Editor John Paczkowski called out Srinivas on X for what the company had done, Srinivas responded that this new ‘product feature’ had some ‘rough edges.’ (‘Product feature sound […]
WSJ’s Tucker on how to thrive against AI
Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette interviewed Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker on how it can protect itself from artificial intelligence content. Tobitt writes, “Since Tucker’s arrival the Wall Street Journal newsroom has seen a number of job cuts and other restructuring including to its Washington DC bureau. “Speaking at the Sir Harry Summit in London on Wednesday, Tucker […]
