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In a blog post on Thursday, Perplexity hit back at media companies skeptical of the benefits of AI in response to a lawsuit News Corp filed against the company earlier this week. The complaint alleges that Perplexity engaged in large-scale copyright infringement against Dow Jones and the New York Post. Several other media organizations have made similar accusations against Perplexity, including Forbes, The New York Times, and Wired. “There have been approximately 30 lawsuits against media companies' generative AI tools. A common theme among these complaints is 'I wish this technology didn't exist,'” the Perplexity team said in a blog.…

In February, a ransomware attack against Change Healthcare resulted in more than 100 million individuals having their personal medical information stolen. This cyberattack caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare industry. UnitedHealth Group, the US health insurer that owns health tech companies, has disclosed data on a large number of individuals, after previously saying it expected the data breach to include data on a “significant proportion of people”. This is the first time I have exposed myself to a breach. In America. ” The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first reported the latest…

Ahead of Apple's private AI cloud, Private Cloud Compute, debuting next week, the tech giant is offering up to $1 million to security researchers to discover vulnerabilities that could compromise the security of its private AI cloud. He announced that he would pay. In a post on Apple's security blog, the company said it would pay a reward of up to $1 million to anyone who reports an exploit that allows remote execution of malicious code on private cloud computing servers. Apple also announced it will award up to $250,000 to researchers who privately report an exploit that can extract…

Starting next week, the Google Photos app will have new disclosures when a photo is edited using one of its AI features, including Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, and Zoom Enhance. When you click on a photo in Google Photos, scrolling to the bottom of the “Details” section will now show when the photo was “edited with Google AI.” Google says it introduced this disclosure to “further increase transparency,” but it's still not so obvious when a photo has been edited by AI. There's no visual watermark inside the photo frame to indicate that the photo is AI-generated. When someone sees…

Decentralized social app Bluesky announced Thursday that it has raised $15 million in a Series A round, following an $8 million seed raise last year. The funding comes as Bluesky anticipates increased growth, in part due to concerns from X users who have been troubled by recent changes to blocking functionality and moves to allow third parties to train AI on users' public posts. It was held in the middle of the day. In the last month alone, Bluesky added about 3 million new users, bringing its total user base to about 13 million. Bluesky was initially incubated within Twitter…

As our colleagues at TechCrunch scooped earlier Thursday, Notion is announcing the email client at its first “Make with Notion” user conference. At the moment, Notion Mail is in preview and, at least for the time being, is more like a Gmail client than a traditional email service. The idea here, according to Notion, is to build an email experience that allows users to “throw away the old ways of rigid inboxes and do things the new way: making email work for you and your workflow.” It is to do. However, when exactly Notion Mail will launch is still a…

We're excited to announce that Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of the popular blogging platform WordPress, will be on the Disrupt stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. When Mullenweg first started working with WordPress, he was a 19-year-old jazz enthusiast and photographer living in Texas. He noticed that the blogging software he was using was stagnant. So we decided to branch out from the existing project and build our own open source platform. . The first version of WordPress was released in May 2003. From its humble beginnings, it has expanded into a near-ubiquitous content management system powering many of the web's most…

Gut health isn't the most glamorous topic, but as many as 1 in 10 people regularly suffer from stomach symptoms such as nausea, bloating, and cramps after meals. Determining the exact cause of your stomach upset is not easy without invasive tests. But New Zealand-based startup Alimetry has developed a wearable device that can speed up the diagnosis of functional problems in the stomach. This non-invasive wearable consists of a flexible electrode array that is applied to a patient's stomach and can detect electrical activity occurring in the stomach. Cloud-based analysis, including the use of artificial intelligence to extract signals…

Brands often rely on web scraping and social media monitoring to understand what customers are saying about the brand and gain insights for product development. Cafeteria connects teens with the brands they are interested in and allows them to provide feedback on strategy and product development. The startup plans to release an iOS app on Thursday. Ahead of Thursday's launch, the startup tested a beta version of the app for three months with teenagers in 60 U.S. cities. Cafeteria's CEO is Rishi Malhotra, co-founder of India-based music streaming service Saavn (now JioSaavn) (acquired by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio in 2019)…

Anthropic's Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. Today, Anthropic announced a new analytical tool that helps Claude return what the company describes as “mathematically accurate and reproducible answers.” When this tool is enabled (currently in preview), Claude can perform calculations, analyze data from files such as spreadsheets and PDFs, and render the results as interactive visualizations. “Think of analytics tools as built-in code sandboxes, where Claude can perform complex calculations, analyze data, and iterate on different ideas before sharing the answer,” Anthropic blogs. I wrote it in a post. “Rather than relying solely on abstract analysis, you…