Wikipedia warns AI companies to stop scraping and pay for data use or lose access

Wikipedia is asking AI companies to stop scraping its content and instead use its paid API to ensure proper credit and ...
CNET

'Would-Be Bank Robbers': Reddit Sues Perplexity, Data Firms Over AI Scraping

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...
Search Engine Land

Reddit sues Perplexity, SerpApi over scraping Google Search data

Reddit is taking four data-scraping companies to court – including AI search engine Perplexity and SEO data firm SerpApi – accusing them of illegally using its content via Google search results. The ...
CoinDesk

Ripple-Backed Firm Plans SPAC, Raising $1B to 'Create the Largest Public XRP Treasury'

A newly formed Nevada company says it will go public and build what it calls a large, publicly traded xrp treasury through a merger with a blank-check firm. Evernorth Holdings disclosed the plan in a ...
Harvard Business Review

How Gen AI Can Create More Time for Leadership

Leaders today are facing a crisis of employee engagement and trust in company leadership. According to Gallup, U.S. employee engagement dropped to 31% in 2024, the lowest level in a decade, with 17% ...
Reuters

a16z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...
WKOW

Caledonia data center plan scrapped by Microsoft after community pushback

RACINE COUNTY, Wis. (WKOW) -- Microsoft has stepped back from its plans to build a data center in Caledonia. A Microsoft spokesperson said the company is not moving forward with the project after ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
AZ Central

Data centers create jobs in central Ohio, but not in ways you might expect

As central Ohio's data center industry keeps booming, critics often lament that the gigantic server warehouses directly employ only several dozen people. But while the number of employees collecting a ...
dbta

Snowflake Unites Industry Leaders with the Open Semantic Interchange Initiative to Create a Universal Semantic Data Framework

Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is partnering with leading industry players and ecosystem vendors, including Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, and RelationalAI, to lead the Open Semantic ...
American Banker

JPMorganChase reaches deal to charge Plaid for customer data

Key Insight: JPMorgan's fee deal with Plaid signals a new data-monetization model. What's at Stake: Banks' pricing could reshape fintech access, competition, and consumer data flows. Forward Look: A ...