AI News Roundup: AI-Powered Search Engine Perplexity AI, Now Valued at $520M, Raises $70M; Police Say AI-Generated Article About Local Murder Is “Entirely” Made Up; & More Headlines

Cybersecurity

• NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI Systems

Health

• ChatGPT Had a High Error Rate For Pediatric Cases (via Axios)

Licensing

• Apple Reportedly Outbids OpenAI in Race to Secure AI deals with Media Companies (via The Decoder)
• OpenAI Says It’s in Talks With Dozens of Publishers About Licensing Content (via Bloomberg)

Media

• Police Say AI-Generated Article About Local Murder Is “Entirely” Made Up

Open AI

• The Open AI GPT Store is Now Scheduled to Go Live Next Week (via Venture Beat)

Perplexity***

• AI-Powered Search Engine Perplexity AI, Now Valued at $520M, Raises $70M ||| Jeff Bezos is Investing in Perplexity (via WSJ; subs only)

*** Ed. Note: We use Perplexity regularly and subscribe for the additional features. Even if it’s a tool you don’t find useful for regular use we still believe it’s a resource you should be aware of. We recently spoke about Perplexity at the CNI Fall Meeting. Key Features: provenance and timeliness. It uses it’s own LLM  (others also available), it’s own web crawl and offers a “focus” search that provides responses from Semantic Scholar.  

United Kingdom

• Preprint: Generative AI is Already Widespread in the Public Sector (via arXiv)

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