Perplexity AI faces copyright lawsuits from media companies (youtube.com)
It has a $9b valuation.

‘a brazen scheme to compete for readers while ... freeriding on the valuable contenct publishers produce.’

It's a search engine that puts links for its sources.

FTC's law banning fake online reviews goes into effect, but doesn't seem to ban ‘deceptively moderating reviews (eg deleting all low star reviews)’ ie ‘weasel language’.

With a high quality Amazon account, Amazon still doesn't seem to publish reviews of products that need to be warned against, imo, when that product doesn't have other reviews. It seems more willing to publish negative reviews into a sea of mixed reviews, but when a product is the only one on Amazon, and it needs a 0-star review or whatever, and you write one explaining, I've seen them not publish this more than once.