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 […]
Bloomberg, AppliedXL launch AI-powered biotech news feed
Bloomberg and AppliedXl have launched an artificial intelligence-powered real-time news feed covering biotech for terminal clients. Bloomberg terminal users will be alerted to issues in clinical trials of new drugs and other events that may move the markets. They will also get analysis of how those issues impact an individual company as well as related […]
Gizmodo posts AI-generated story with errors
Tech news site Gizmodo posted a story about “Star Wars” movies on Wednesday generated by artificial intelligence that contained multiple errors, reports Todd Spangler of Variety. Spangler writes, “‘As you may have seen today, an AI-generated article appeared on io9,’ James Whitbrook, deputy editor at io9 and Gizmodo, tweeted about the situation. ‘I was informed approximately 10 […]
