Author name: Ian Carlos Campbell

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports . Perplexity is launching the plan (and partially paying for it) with a new Comet Plus subscription that gives subscribers access “to premium content from

Apple might use Gemini to power its revamped version of Siri, Bloomberg reports. The companies are in the early stages of exploring a partnership, with Google training a version of its Gemini model that can run on Apple’s servers. The iPhone maker was previously reported to be considering similar partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic. “The

Google has announced plans to sell a custom version of its Gemini AI models for government agencies. “Gemini for Government” includes access to existing tools like NotebookLM, and “Google-quality enterprise search, video and image generation capabilities.” The AI platform is in direct competition with similar offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. A big focus of

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced plans to investigate both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for offering AI chatbots that can claim to be health tools, and potentially misusing data collected from underage users. Paxton says that AI chatbots from either platform “can present themselves as professional therapeutic tools,” to the point of lying

Claude is getting a better, if selective, memory. Rather than acting as perfect catalog of everything you’ve talked about or shared, Anthropic says the AI chatbot now has the ability to reference past chats when asked, so you don’t have to re-explain yourself. The feature seems like it could help you pick up a work

Google is updating Gemini to make it a better education tool with a new feature called Guided Learning. Like similar learning-focused updates to ChatGPT and Claude, Guided Learning tries to promote understanding by breaking down problems into step-by-step instructions, follow-up questions and interactive examples, rather than simply providing an answer. Guided Learning will be available