🧑⚖️ New York Times sues Perplexity for 'illegal' copying
The NYT says Perplexity copied, distributed, and displayed millions of its articles without permission, including paywalled ones. It also claims Perplexity’s bot hallucinated stories and put NYT trademarks alongside them - yikes.
Perplexity pushes back, saying it indexes public pages rather than scraping to build base models. Damages and an injunction are on the table, and, yes, this fight could shape AI–media relations for a while.
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🤝 Meta inks AI data deals with big publishers
Meta signed paid agreements so its Meta AI can surface real-time news with links to outlets like USA Today, CNN, Fox News, Le Monde, and more. It’s… a turn back toward news, sort of.
The pitch is better answers - and traffic back to publishers - though critics will squint at how “balanced” this ends up in practice. Honestly, fair question.
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📿 Meta buys Limitless, the AI pendant startup
Limitless makes that little mic-on-a-lanyard that records and transcribes your conversations, then summarizes them later - like a memory assistant, but wearable. Meta scooped it up; terms undisclosed.
New sales are paused for now; existing users keep support, though with updated privacy terms. That last bit… might be the whole ballgame.
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☁️ AWS went all in on AI - customers maybe not
At re:Invent, AWS blitzed announcements: AI agents, refreshed models, tools to build agents - the works. Big energy.
Some analysts say enterprises still aren’t ready or seeing ROI, which is awkward - or just early. AWS says the agent era changes that. We’ll see, soon-ish.
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🏗️ SoftBank eyes DigitalBridge for AI infrastructure push
SoftBank is in talks to buy DigitalBridge, a data centers–fiber–edge conglomerate managing a hefty portfolio. Markets noticed, hard.
It’s the classic AI picks-and-shovels bet - power, racks, networks - where demand keeps climbing while models argue about parameters. Feels very… shovel-forward.
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💳 Goldman flags where AI credit risk actually sits
Investors aren’t shunning AI across the board, Goldman says. In investment grade, sector-exposed bonds without direct AI issuers outperformed, while baskets with direct AI names lagged.
Translation - issuer risk beats sector vibes. A little messy, but not panic. More like… selective squeamishness.
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