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• 1. 🚀 Launch and design your startup with Framer
• 2 📰 The New York Times sues Perplexity
• 3. 👨💻 Step into retail success with Salesforce’s Cyber Week Insights
• 4. 📖 How AI literacy training boosted tool usage by 10x
• 5. 👓 Meta acquires AI wearable startup Limitless
• 6. 📈 Yoodli triples valuation to $300M+
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The New York Times sues Perplexity
🚨 Our Report
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, alleging it copied and distributed the newspaper’s content to train and power its AI search engine. Filed in the Southern District of New York, the suit alleges Perplexity scraped Times articles, videos, and podcasts to generate responses that are “identical or substantially similar” to original reporting.
🔓 Key Points
The Times alleges Perplexity used its journalism without permission, echoing similar complaints made in its ongoing suit against Microsoft and OpenAI over AI model training practices.
Perplexity’s spokesperson said publishers have sued technologies for a century, adding that such efforts “have never worked.”
Founded in 2022, Perplexity has raised over $1.5B from investors including Nvidia, IVP, and NEA, and faces a second copyright suit from the Chicago Tribune, filed a day earlier.
🔐 Relevance
This case could set a precedent for how AI companies source and license training data. Media organizations are moving to protect their intellectual property as generative AI systems rely more heavily on journalistic content. The outcome may influence future licensing models, transparency standards, and the balance between innovation and creators’ rights.
Case Study
How AI literacy training boosted tool usage by 10x
Insurance and asset management firm Principal Financial saw low adoption of its AI tools due to widespread employee fear.
A significant lack of AI knowledge created internal resistance, which hampered efforts to integrate the technology into company-wide workflows.
The company launched its first-ever AI literacy program with four courses covering AI basics, prompt writing, and proper data usage.
Following the training, 82% of employees completed at least one course, and active AI tool users grew from 800 to 8,000.
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Meta acquires AI wearable startup Limitless
Meta has acquired Limitless, the AI hardware startup behind a pendant that records and transcribes real-world conversations. The company will stop selling devices and move its team into Meta’s Reality Labs division, which leads work on AR and AI-enabled wearables.
Limitless raised $33M from a16z, NEA, and First Round Capital before the sale. Its founders said the move aligns with Meta’s goal to “bring personal superintelligence to everyone,” signaling a deeper commitment to on-body AI beyond Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
The move signals accelerating consolidation in AI hardware, as smaller startups exit while giants like Meta and OpenAI build their own devices.
AI News Story
Yoodli triples valuation to $300M+
Communication training startup Yoodli has tripled its valuation to over $300M after closing a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, with participation from Neotribe and Madrona. The four-year-old company, founded by ex-Google and Apple engineers, has raised nearly $60M in total funding.
Yoodli’s platform uses AI to simulate real-world speaking scenarios like sales calls, interviews, and coaching sessions, helping users practice and refine communication skills. Clients include Google, Snowflake, and Franklin Covey, which use the system for training and certification.
The company’s growth signals rising enterprise demand for AI that strengthens human performance and measurable skill development, keeping people central to the learning process.
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