Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones, which is the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post both sued AI search startup Perplexity on Monday for infringing copyrighted content.
The News Corp.-owned companies accused Perplexity of a “massive amount of illegal copying” of their work. It marks the latest lawsuit in an ongoing battle between tech
Microsoft will allow its customers to build autonomous artificial intelligence agents from next month, in its latest push to tap the booming technology amid growing investor scrutiny of its hefty AI investments.
The company is positioning autonomous agents—programs that need little human intervention unlike chatbots—as “apps for an AI-driven world” that can handle client queries,
Being rejected is never fun—or is it? Most of us spend our lives trying to wipe these embarrassing moments from memory, however, on TikTok a recent trend sees people actively seeking out opportunities to get shot down, then filming and uploading the awkward encounter for millions to see.
In one video, someone asks a barista for free coffee, just because. Another
ChatGPT tried to warn me about The Terminator.
Before I sat down recently to watch James Cameron’s 1984 killer-robot blockbuster, I asked the world’s most popular AI chatbot what I should expect. It told me that, given the rapid rise of real-world artificial intelligence, I might find the movie “both prescient and unsettling.” My virtual assistant was particularly concerned about how I would react to the
After a few years of successful day trading, Umar Ashraf found himself looking for software to plan, track, and evaluate his trades.
But, he says, when he looked at the trade journaling products available about four years ago, he didn’t find any that fully met his needs. Ashraf wanted features to help him better evaluate the details of his trades, like running profit-and-loss data that would help him unde
Boy, is my wife mad at Amazon for killing off the wonderful Oasis line of premium Kindle e-book readers. I, too, am upset—she’s due for an upgrade and the holidays are right around the corner.
She likes the Oasis’s buttons—the physical, tangible, clicky-clacky, tried and true buttons for turning pages. Amazon says they’re going all i
The American public is on alert about artificial intelligence and the 2024 election.
A September 2024 poll by the Pew Research Center found that well over half of Americans worry that artificial intelligence—or AI, computer
Smartphones have enabled us to attend to work from nearly anywhere. But their productivity power also frequently encroaches on our personal lives—making it too easy to reply to business emails or Slack messages when we should be focused on
When it comes to most home screens—on your phone, your computer, you name it—you’ve got endless-seeming options for customizing and taking control.
The one canvas you can’t easily paint, curiously enough, is your browser’s New Tab page. And from one device to the next, it might just be the surface some of us stare at most often.
Sure, New Tab pages are much more customizable than they once were. But wouldn’t it be nice to see the weather right t
This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.
Netflix shares are rising by nine percent early Friday after the company Thursday evening beat with its revenue and profit, and forecast 2025’s revenue will be about in line with consensus, and that operating profit will continue to expand.