Social media platform Reddit sued artificial intelligence firm Perplexity AI and three other entities last week, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to “scrape” the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain. Reddit’s lawsuit in a New York federal court takes aim at San Francisco-based Perplexity, maker of an AI chatbot [...]
Six Columbus-area businesses have been awarded funding from the state’s Third Frontier program to support research and commercialization of early-stage technologies. The Third Frontier Commission earlier this week approved a total of $2 million in grants for 10 organizations around the state through the Technology Validation and Start-up Fund program “to provide research and development [...]
A group that includes activist investor Jana Partners and NFL player Travis Kelce says it has accumulated one of the largest ownership stakes in Six Flags Entertainment, which owns Cedar Point in Sandusky and Kings Island in Mason. The group says it intends to press the company’s leadership on ways to improve the struggling amusement [...]
OpenAI earlier this week introduced its own web browser, Atlas, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as a growing number of internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. Making its popular AI chatbot a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world’s most valuable startup, to pull in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has agreed to resume student loan forgiveness for an estimated 2.5 million borrowers who are enrolled in certain federal repayment plans following a lawsuit from the American Federation of Teachers. Under the agreement reached last week between the teachers union and the administration, the Education Department will process [...]
A Westerville firm has been awarded state financing to assist with the purchase and renovation of a 4,588-square-foot office space on Central College Road. Trillium Land Holdings LLC will receive $297,313 through the state’s Regional 166 Direct Loan program, according to state Department of Development officials. Trillium Land Holdings is a real estate holding company formed to lease [...]
MIAMI (AP) — Professional golf legend Jack Nicklaus has won a $50 million verdict in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida against his former business partners. A six-person jury in Palm Beach County earlier this week found that the Nicklaus Companies had damaged the 18-time major champion’s reputation and exposed him to ridicule, hatred, mistrust, [...]
Netflix missed the earnings target set by stock market analysts during the video streamer’s latest quarter, a letdown that the company blamed on a tax dispute in Brazil. The results broke Netflix’s six-quarter streak of posting a profit that eclipsed analysts’ projections. The Los Gatos, Calif., company cited an unexpected $619 million expense tied to [...]