If you’ve made an impulse purchase on Instagram late and night and regretted it in the morning you’re not alone, according to WalletHub, even if 54% is not a huge majority of second-thinkers. Eighty percent would spend less if they deleted their social media accounts. Meanwhile, 86% of shoppers aged 18-44 say they miss being able to touch and handle real products (The Harris Poll).
Over 60% of employees say AI has been significantly overhyped, including 49% of IT leaders, according to a survey of 2,500 respondents by cloud communications and IT platform GoTo. At the same time, 86% admit they’re not using it to its full potential, including 92% of Baby Boomers. Is AI on the brink of Gartner’s Trough of Disillusionment?
In the latest twist of the AI and copyright violation saga, a California federal judge has ruled that Anthropic training its LLM Claude on copyrighted books was “fair use and “transformative” — “like any reader aspiring to be a writer.” The part of the lawsuit, brought by three authors, that focuses on Anthropic maintaining a central library of some 7 million pirated books, will proceed to trial. That claim could still result in damages.
The web search tool Perplexity looks like it’s taking on Google with its latest release, a web browser named Comet. Comet claims to move “from browsing to thinking,” surfacing information and search results in response to natural language queries. Comet is available immediately to Perplexity Max subscribers; others can join a wait list.