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Latest in AI

CNN sues Perplexity

🚨 Our Report

CNN has filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit against Perplexity AI, alleging the AI search company unlawfully scraped and redistributed more than 17,000 of its news stories, photos, and videos. The network is now one of nine major publishers actively suing Perplexity over similar claims.

🔓 Key Points

• The 54-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges Perplexity "unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, and distributes CNN's content" to generate responses that compete directly with CNN's original reporting.

• Perplexity now faces active lawsuits from nine major content owners, including the New York Times, News Corp, the Chicago Tribune, Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster, Reddit, and Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun.

• The industry benchmark was set last August when Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to resolve the Bartz v. Anthropic class action, the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history.

🔐 Relevance

For enterprise leaders evaluating AI vendors, these lawsuits signal rising training-data costs across the industry. Companies building on retrieval-based AI tools face potential licensing obligations that did not exist two years ago. The Anthropic settlement creates a pricing floor that content owners will reference in future negotiations, meaning the cost of legally sourcing copyrighted material for AI training and generation is now structurally higher.

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What a Trillion Data Points Tell Us About AI and Consumer Behaviour | Vivek Pandya, Adobe

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THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: SALES (powered by Upscaile)

Hisense (global consumer electronics manufacturer, operating in 100+ countries) faced fragmented regional demand and inconsistent visibility across 20+ key markets. They partnered with NielsenIQ to centralize real-time competitive and sales intelligence, giving commercial teams granular data to refine pricing, product mix, and shelf strategy by region.

Tool used: NielsenIQ (NIQ) -- real-time retail measurement and AI-powered market intelligence platform.

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The lesson: Revenue AI works when insights are embedded directly into commercial decisions like pricing, positioning, and expansion timing, not parked in dashboards.

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THE POLICY CORNER

Connecticut mandates employer disclosure for AI hiring decisions—law takes effect October 2027.

Employers using automated decision-making tools to evaluate job applicants or make employment decisions must notify workers about the AI system, what personal data it analyzes, and where that data comes from. Applies to businesses operating in Connecticut regardless of headquarters location. Disclosure can be handled by the AI vendor under contract.

Deadline: October 1, 2027

Risk: Non-compliance exposes companies to enforcement action under Connecticut's consumer protection framework. Early violations set precedent for penalties.

Your move: Inventory current and planned AI hiring tools now. Confirm vendor contracts include disclosure language or build internal notice templates before deployment.

AI News

• 🇫🇷 SoftBank plans $87B AI buildout in France: Japanese tech giant commits 75 billion euros to build 5 GW of data center capacity across France by 2031, marking its largest European AI infrastructure bet as the region battles high energy costs to compete with U.S. and China. FULL STORY

• 💰 GitHub Copilot's token billing sparks dev backlash: Microsoft switches from flat-rate to usage-based pricing on June 1, with some developers reporting monthly costs jumping from $29 to $750, while others defend the model as fair for actual development work versus vibe-coding. FULL STORY

• 🎯 Google launches Gemini Spark for task automation: New feature rolls out to AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S., enabling the assistant to complete tasks across Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and external websites via remote browser capabilities, positioning Gemini as an action-capable agent. FULL STORY

• ⚔️ Pentagon signs AI deals with seven tech firms: Defense Department partners with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection, and SpaceX to deploy AI in classified networks, as military leadership debates guardrails for autonomous targeting and warfighter decision-making. FULL STORY

Trending AI Tools (Sponsored by the AI Executive’s Pass)

A curated look at the AI tools quietly transforming how teams work.

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2. Syntonym generates anonymous faces for videos and images using real-time AI

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The Money: Memory replaces compute as AI's real constraint

As hyperscalers burn through billions on GPU clusters, smart capital is quietly flowing to the layer underneath: memory architecture. Two major deals this week signal investors betting AI's next bottleneck isn't processing power, it's how fast data moves.

Deals to know:

• XCENA (Series B, $135M) -- Memory-centric AI chip that processes data within DRAM modules instead of shuttling it to GPUs. Claims 10-to-1 server consolidation. Investors: Atinum Investment, IMM Investment, Corstone Asia

• Groq (Late Stage, $650M) -- Inference neocloud built on proprietary chips, post-$20B Nvidia licensing deal. Existing backers Disruptive and Infinitium guaranteeing the round.

Signal: Memory chip makers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron each crossed trillion-dollar valuations this month. Capital is following a thesis shift, inference scales on memory speed, not just compute density.

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