Bible Verses of the Day

36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” 39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. [Hebrews 10:36-39 ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 🗞️ News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping

• 🤓 ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

• ⛅️ Easy Cloud News

• 📰 AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web scraping and unethical summarization, is a thin one.

Perplexity AI is a startup that combines a search engine with a large language model that generates answers with detailed responses, rather than just links.

Unlike OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity doesn’t train its own foundational AI models, instead using open or commercially available ones to take the information it gathers from the internet and translate that into answers.

But a series of accusations in June suggests the startup’s approach borders on being unethical. Forbes called out Perplexity for allegedly plagiarizing one of its news articles in the startup’s beta Perplexity Pages feature. And Wired has accused Perplexity of illicitly scraping its website, along with other sites.

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies.

That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into becoming one of the most-hyped companies in recent memory. And its latest partnership with Apple for its upcoming generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, has given the company another significant bump in the AI race.

Easy Cloud News

Listen or read the following transcript as Joel Beeke tackles the theological debate surrounding justification, highlighting the biblical perspective that salvation is attained through faith in Christ rather than by human works.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

AI News

• 🤖 Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds (link)

• 😀 Researchers develop new training technique that aims to make AI systems less socially biased (link)

• 🖥️ Microsoft AI CEO claims internet content is ‘freeware’ for AI training use (link)

• 🛟 Stability AI lands a lifeline from Sean Parker, Greycroft (link)

• 📧 Google brings its Gemini AI to Gmail to help you write and summarize emails (link)

AI Tools

• 🧠 OpenNN: An open-source neural networks library for machine learning (link)

• 🕰️ TimeHero: Perfect for teams working remotely (link)

• 🐋 Beluga: Christian sermon and lecture transcripts, translations and more (link)

• 💻️ Zoho Creator: The modern AI platform for software development (link)

• 🗣️ Murf: There is a voice for every need (link)