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NYT Sends Perplexity Cease-and-Desist Letter Over AI

Information Week

The newspaper says the company uses its writing without permission, according to a Wall Street Journal report -- as other media companies forge lucrative deals with AI companies to license copyrighted material.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

In space, no-one can cancel your software license NASA is a scientific marvel that does all sorts of cool and inspiring space stuff; it’s also a sprawling government bureaucracy with thousands of employees and computer systems under its umbrella. This turned out not to be true.)

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T-Mobile reportedly nearing deal to acquire part of U.S. Cellular

GeekWire

Cellular, one of the last major regional wireless carriers, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Cellular in deals that would include operations and wireless spectrum licenses. A deal with T-Mobile could be reached as soon as this month, the Journal reported. T-Mobile mentioned U.S.

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Reports: Microsoft under new antitrust scrutiny over Inflection deal and AI dominance

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is facing a pair of new antitrust probes from the Federal Trade Commission, according to reports Wednesday evening from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Microsoft reportedly paid around $650 million to Inflection in a licensing deal.

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Digital addiction detox: Streamline tech to maximize impact, minimize risks

CIO Business Intelligence

As Robert Blumofe, chief technology officer at Akamai Technologies, told The Wall Street Journal recently, “The goal is not to solve the business problem. This might involve consolidating systems, rationalizing licenses, and addressing technical debt. The goal is to adopt AI.”

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Analysis: Nobody could dethrone ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ except Wizards of the Coast — and it may have done just that

GeekWire

based Kobold Press has used the Open Game License to publish material for D&D 5th edition, such as 2016’s Tome of Beasts , shown above. 5 leak via io9’s Linda Concerga indicated that Wizards had plans to deauthorize its Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice that the company adopted in 2000. Redmond, Wash.-based

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This article is OpenAI training data

Vox

Let’s make a deal — or else I’ve been thinking about the paperclip maximizer thought experiment ever since I found out on Thursday morning that Vox Media, the company to which Future Perfect and Vox belong, had signed a licensing deal with OpenAI to allow its published material to be used to train its AI models and be shared within ChatGPT.

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