Bobby Allen

Vast corners of the internet have been scanned without permission, spurring copyright lawsuits from publications like the New York Times.

In this case, Reddit says other AI chatbots have struck licensing deals, but perplexity has refused.

Bobby Allen, NPR News.

Meta is laying off about 600 employees who work on AI development.

That's according to an internal announcement confirmed by NPR.

There are still thousands of Meta employees working on AI projects, including superintelligence, or building AI systems that can exceed the capabilities of the human brain.

But the layoffs indicate that some of Meta's recent AI hiring has been overzealous.

It comes just as investor fears grow that the AI industry has become a bubble that could pop and cause economic upheaval.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spent billions to recruit top AI talent from OpenAI, Google, and other tech companies to try to stave off competition in the AI race.

Bobby Allen, NPR News.

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Since OpenAI launched its Sora 2 app three weeks ago, thousands of realistic-looking deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr.

have flooded social media.

Some of the videos were ridiculous and absurd.

Others were offensive and racist.

But now the late civil rights leader cannot be produced on the AI app.

The decision was made at the request of King's daughter, who publicly condemned the videos and asked the public to stop generating them.

OpenAI's Sora app has come under criticism of rights holders and disinformation experts who say the app supercharges deepfakes across the internet.

The company has been putting up guardrails slowly since the launch.