The Verge AI startup Perplexity, which offers an AI search engine, published a blog post today pushing back on News Corp's lawsuit against the company.Perplexity has recently come under significant scrutiny following accusations that it scraped content without permission, and News Corp, which is the parent company of the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal-owner Dow Jones, alleged that Perplexity's search engine copies on a massive scale."Perplexity, in its response today, argues that news organizations like News Corp that have filed lawsuits against AI companies prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations, and no one can do anything with those publicly reported facts without paying a toll."No one,... Continue reading...

The Verge AI search company Perplexity is putting to the test whether it's a good idea to use AI to serve crucial voting information with a new Election Information Hub it announced on Friday. The hub offers things like AI-generated answers to voting questions and summaries of candidates, and on November 5th, Election Day, the company says it will track vote counts live, using data from The Associated Press.Perplexity says its voter information, which includes polling requirements, locations, and times, is based on data from Democracy Works. (The same group powers similar features from Google). And that its election-related answers come from a curated set of the most trustworthy and informative sources."Perplexity spokesperson Sara Platnick... Continue reading...