Mediagazer: Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so (Wired)

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Tests show that ChatGPT is hallucinating URLs in some citations, directing users to broken links for at least 10 news publications with OpenAI licensing deals — Nieman Lab's tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.

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Wired:

Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so — AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …

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Associated Press:

The Center for Investigative Reporting, which produces Mother Jones and Reveal, has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Microsoft, saying OpenAI violated copyrights — The Center for Investigative Reporting said Thursday it has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its closest business partner, Microsoft …

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Bloomberg:

Naver-owned Webtoon shares closed up 9.5% at $23 in the online comics company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of ~$2.9B, after an IPO that raised $315M — - Online comics company's first-time share sale priced at top — Firm sees growth beyond Korea coming from Japan, France

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Laurel Rosenhall / Los Angeles Times:

The California State Senate passes SB 1327, a bill aimed at imposing a “data extraction mitigation fee” on Big Tech to help fund local journalism — The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the world.

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Neil Griffiths / Mumbrella:

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Time strikes a multi-year content licensing deal with OpenAI; Time will gain access to OpenAI's tech and tools to develop new products — - It also gives the AI giant access to Time's real-time content to help answer user queries as news unfolds. — Under the agreement …

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Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press:

Seven nonprofits including the Freedom of the Press Foundation file a brief saying the US law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban is unconstitutional — A group of nonprofits argued in a legal filing that the federal law requiring TikTok's parent company to sell the platform …

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David Roeder / Chicago Sun Times:

Chicago Public Media names Vox co-founder Melissa Bell as its new CEO, starting September 3; CPM owns the Chicago Sun-Times and public radio station WBEZ — The founder and former publisher of Vox Media will take over in September. — Melissa Bell, former publisher of Vox Media …

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