CNN has sued Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully using the news network’s copyrighted content without permission. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, claims that Perplexity copied over 17,000 of CNN’s stories, videos, images, and other published works to support its products and tools. “[Perplexity], a company valued at tens of billions of dollars, should not be able to steal from entities that create the original content Perplexity exploits,” said a CNN spokesperson in a statement. “The public relies on high-quality news journalism reported by human beings to understand their world, which is frequently dangerous and expensive to produce. Commercial…
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ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 306.29 points or -0.47% to 64,693.12 • Shanghai increased 4.909 points or 0.12% to 4,098.636 • Hang Seng decreased 322.07 points or -1.27% to 25,006.16 • ASX 200 decreased 124.80 points or -1.43% to 8,592.90 • SENSEX closed • Nifty50 closed The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00276 or 0.39% to 0.71680 • NZDUSD increased 0.00305 or 0.52% to 0.59335 • USDJPY decreased 0.37 or -0.23% to 159.149 • USDCNY decreased 0.00721 or -0.11% to 6.77185 The above…
If there’s anything Trump loves, it’s slapping his face and name on things: vodka, steaks, passports, and even monuments to other people. Now he wants to emblazon his likeness on paper currency. According to The Washington Post, Trump appointees are pushing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the agency tasked with printing the nation’s money, to prepare a banknote with the president’s face on it. They want the value to be $250—a nod to the country’s 250th anniversary this year. If this initiative proceeds, it would also require changing policy. Federal law only allows deceased people to be printed on the…
Automation and AI aren’t synonymous, but there is a relationship. As AI capabilities have improved, more companies are using it to automate parts of the business that previously were human-touch only. Deciding what to automate and how to use technology for the greatest impact, is something our Fast Company Impact Council members think about daily. Here’s what 24 members said about how they incorporate automation, and how that has changed over time. 1. SCALE CONSISTENCY AND FAIRNESS Automation and AI are most valuable when they reclaim time for high-impact, human-centered work. In mission-driven organizations like ours, core functions—relationship-building, equity-centered design,…
Israel-based Wix joins a growing list of companies announcing layoffs citing “the fast evolution” of AI. (That list includes Meta, Cisco, Groupon, and Intuit, in just the last few weeks.) It also said a weak dollar, creating a poor exchange rate with the Israeli shekel, was to blame. Wix, a website builder, said Thursday that it’s laying off roughly 20% of its workforce, in a post from CEO Avishai Abrahami on X and LinkedIn. (That’s about 1,000 people, according to CNBC, which reported that Wix had 5,277 employees as of May.) “We have witnessed the most significant shift in how…
When Rory McIlroy won the Masters for the second year in a row, Kalshi shared a photo of him on Instagram with the words, “Wait he’s goated.” When a video of NBA player Damian Lillard recovering from an injury circulated online, Kalshi’s main competitor Polymarket posted, “The league is cooked.”If you don’t know what either of those phrases mean, it’s because you may not be the target audience.The posts and hundreds of others like it are exposing younger people to prediction market platforms, where users can put money on the line for the outcomes of real-world events — or absurd…
On Feb. 10, 2026, an 18-year-old woman, Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed eight people and herself in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. OpenAI had previously flagged her ChatGPT conversations as having a disturbing fascination with extreme violence, and suspended her account, but reportedly the company did not notify law enforcement. On Oct. 2, 2025, a young man named Jonathan Gavalas in Jupiter, Florida, took his own life after developing what his father’s lawsuit described as a romantic attachment to Google’s Gemini chatbot. The suit claimed that Gemini coached Gavalas to shed his own body. The suit said Google…
In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.The World Meteorological Organization also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.66 degrees Celsius) between now and 2030 and a dangerous drought with potential wildfires for the Amazon, a crucial part of Earth’s natural defenses to lessen human-caused climate change. A hotter globe from the burning of coal, oil and gas means more extreme weather including floods, droughts and…
For years, the smart ring has been pitched as a piece of jewelry that happens to read your sleep stages, your heart rate variability, and your blood oxygen. In reality, though, most smart rings are chunkier than anything you would pick at a jewelry store—something that many consumers find annoying. Oura, the Finnish-founded, San Francisco-based company that helped invent the category over the past 12 years, has heard the complaint from its own customers repeatedly. “The feedback we always hear is, ‘We love the power and insights of the ring, but can you make it smaller?’” said Lindsey Belknap, Oura’s…
In January 2026, Anthropic published an 84-page constitution for Claude, its AI model that’s notable for what it doesn’t do: it doesn’t list rules. Instead, it explains why Claude should behave in certain ways, so the model can reason through situations its creators never anticipated. The core idea is simple: rules run out. Judgment doesn’t. I’ve been thinking about that distinction for years, not in the context of AI, but in the context of leaders I’ve worked with throughout my career. Across multiple financial services institutions, through multiple waves of technology transformation, I watched smart, principled people do things that,…