"This week, AI faces lawsuits and security challenges as streaming giants chase billion-dollar milestones and media power plays reshape the screen. In today's MadTech Daily, we discuss documents revealing Meta's profits from scam ads, Netflix entering its third year of ads with an eye on the future, and Snap shares surging after a USD$400m Perplexity AI deal. Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, alleging its shopping assistant, Comet AI, illegally accessed user accounts and disguised automated activity as human interactions."
"Meanwhile, the world's top AI players, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft are uniting to tackle escalating cybersecurity risks, particularly "prompt injection" attacks that exploit large language models through hidden commands in online content. In brighter AI news, Getty Images has struck a multi-year licensing deal with Perplexity, integrating Getty's premium visuals into the start up's discovery tools and boosting its stock by 5%."
AI companies and startups face simultaneous legal and cybersecurity pressures as lawsuits and attacks increase. Amazon sued Perplexity AI, alleging that Comet AI improperly accessed user accounts and disguised automated activity, compromising safeguards and customer data integrity. Leading AI organizations including Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft formed a coalition to mitigate prompt injection attacks that manipulate large language models via hidden commands. Getty Images licensed its visual library to Perplexity, integrating premium imagery into discovery tools and lifting Perplexity's stock. Netflix is exploring acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery streaming and studio assets, while Omdia forecasts the global video entertainment market will exceed $1 trillion by 2030. A carriage dispute removed Disney channels from YouTube TV, affecting about 10 million viewers.
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