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Let’s recall how Ryan Cabrera met Alexa Bliss. And as it turns out, their meeting in 2020 was a misunderstanding.”We actually met because there were rumors that we were dating,” Alexa explained on The Bellas Podcast that year. “He liked some of my tweets, so a fan saw that and created an Instagram saying we were dating and tagged everyone at the company.”But in reality, the athlete and the singer had not yet met.”Ryan’s best friend Miz called him and said, ‘Hey, are you dating Alexa Bliss?’ And he said, ‘What’s Alexa Bliss?’ I don’t know what that means,” she…

One of my annual exercises every December is to consider which sectors are underperforming and which are likely to turn things around. This year, the common answer is healthcare, and there’s reason to believe the industry’s recent rally may be paying off. When we look at this sector, we tend to focus on big drug manufacturers and big pharma stocks. We’ve seen the SPDR Healthcare Select Sector ETF (XLV) rally and push the biotech sector to new 52-week highs. However, there is a forgotten aspect of this field that is starting to raise eyebrows among technologists. It’s a medical device…

The New York Times filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI search startup Perplexity on Friday, marking the second such lawsuit against an AI company. The Times joins multiple media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed suit this week. The Times’ lawsuit alleges that Perplexity offers commercial products that serve as an alternative to Outlet to its users “without authorization or compensation.” The lawsuit comes as several publishers, including The Times, are negotiating contracts with AI companies, part of the same strategy that has been going on for years. Recognizing that the tide of AI cannot…

Davide Bonaldo | Light Rocket | Getty Imagesof new york times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity on Friday, accusing the artificial intelligence startup of illegally copying and distributing copyrighted content. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, accuses Perplexity of illegally scraping Times articles, videos, podcasts and other content to create answers to users’ questions. The startup also produces output that is “identical or substantially similar” to Times content, according to the complaint.”While we believe in the ethical and responsible use and development of AI, we firmly oppose Perplexity’s unauthorized use of our content to develop and…

Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist at Hightower Advisors, said Meta’s rise on Thursday after reports of job cuts was no surprise and should be the start of another bull run. Facebook’s parent company’s stock soared nearly 4% during trading hours after Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to cut the Metaverse unit’s budget by up to 30%. Bloomberg reported that the move includes job losses and is likely to impact the virtual reality sector. “This is what Zuckerberg is doing,” Link said Thursday on CNBC’s “Halftime Report.” META 1D Mountain Meta Platform, 1…

China’s ruling Communist Party is using artificial intelligence to increase surveillance and control over its 1.4 billion people, with the technology becoming even more pervasive in daily life, predicting public demonstrations and monitoring the mood of prison inmates, according to a new report. Many of these systems are already well-documented, from the army of online censors maintaining the Great Firewall to the ubiquitous surveillance cameras on nearly every street and block in urban China. But a report released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on Monday details how government AI tools used to “automate censorship, strengthen surveillance and pre-emptively…

The story of how Jelly Rolly and Bunnie Xo metBunny Zoe and Jelly Roll’s love story began in Las Vegas.As she recalled on Bussin’ With The Boys, she met the singer when they performed at a country saloon in Las Vegas in August 2015. This was before jelly rolls became famous. At the time, he was living in a van and estimated about 20 people came to the show.Instead, their spark took center stage.”When I met him, I tell people this is the craziest cliché, but literally my soul was like, ‘I’m there,'” Bunny said on a 2023 podcast. “And…

Investors looking to secure income ahead of another rate cut by the Federal Reserve can still find stable yields on certificates of deposit. Some have a yield of 4%. According to the CME FedWatch tool, markets are pricing in an 87% chance that the central bank will cut rates by a quarter of a percentage point at next week’s meeting. Interest rates on physical products such as money market funds and high-yield savings accounts are expected to follow suit. The current seven-day annualized yield on the Crane 100 list of largest taxable money market funds is 3.79%. According to BTIG…

Meta has signed a commercial AI data agreement with a news publisher to provide real-time global news, entertainment news, and breaking news on its AI chatbot, Meta AI. From now on, when users ask a Meta AI news-related question, information and links from a variety of content sources will appear, helping users discover timely and relevant content, the company announced Friday. These responses also include links to articles, so users can visit the publisher’s website for more information. The company says this will allow its partners to reach new audiences. Meta is affiliated with CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, Le…

Social media giant X has been fined 120 million euros ($140 million) for breaching transparency obligations in the European Commission’s latest challenge to major U.S. tech companies. The commission said Friday that violations include “the deceptive design of the ‘blue check mark,’ lack of transparency in advertising repositories, and failure to provide researchers with access to publicly available data.”The ruling follows a two-year investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA), adopted in 2022 to regulate online platforms. The European Commission said failure to comply with the decision could lead to the payment of fines.”Deceiving users with blue checkmarks, hiding information…