Aug 7, 2025 6 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Trump Bets on Search AI

More Stories: Publishers Strike Back Against AI Giants

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Truth, it seems, is up for licensing. And everyone's placing bets.

SOCIAMEDIA

Trump Gets a Perplexity-Powered Search AI

📌 What’s happening: Trump’s Truth Social, the President’s X.com alternative is beta testing Truth Search AI, a new feature powered by Perplexity’s Sonar API. Trump Media says the tool delivers “contextually accurate answers with transparent citations.” The financials are undisclosed, but the message is clear: Trump Media is betting big on AI.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t a search upgrade — it’s an algorithmic megaphone. Truth Social’s information ecosystem is being rebuilt by outsourced AI. Perplexity quietly becomes the backend for right-wing content discovery, while Truth Social dodges the infra burden. Meanwhile, X has Grok, Meta has Meta AI, Reddit has its own AI search — Trump chose the plug-and-play path: cheaper, faster, blame-resistant.

🛎️ Key takeaway: AI search isn’t neutral — it’s narrative infrastructure. And Perplexity just handed Trump a clean-looking algorithmic loudspeaker.

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LAWSUIT

OpenAI’s Data Defense Cracks Under NYT Pressure

📌 What’s happening: The New York Times wants 120 million ChatGPT conversations to prove copyright infringement. OpenAI counters with 20 million, citing user privacy and operational overload. The court hasn’t ruled yet — but OpenAI’s legal stance isn’t landing punches.

🧠 How this hits reality: Despite its size and legal firepower, OpenAI is flailing to contain a discovery request that exposes its weakest flank: data compliance at scale. Its defense hinges on privacy, but the optics say otherwise — that it can’t confidently account for where its training data ends and user data begins. For legal, trust, and product teams, this is a worst-case scenario unfolding in real time.

🛎️ Key takeaway: OpenAI scaled faster than it secured its data supply chain — and now, it’s bleeding in public with no court win in sight.

LAWSUIT

Yomiuri Shimbun Drags Perplexity AI into Tokyo Court

📌 What’s happening: Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings just sued Perplexity AI in Tokyo District Court for unauthorized use of its news content—marking one of Japan’s first major legal volleys against AI scraping. It’s part of a wider global trend: old-guard publishers are done watching startups monetize their IP without a dime in return.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t a symbolic slap—it’s the sound of a reckoning. As AI companies scale off scraped content, traditional media’s counteroffensive is going legal, territorial, and global. If courts side with publishers, AI firms reliant on “free” data ingestion could see their margins tank and product roadmaps rerouted by licensing deals. Free lunch is over.

🛎️ Key takeaway: AI giants keep slurping up news without paying—now legacy media are fighting back, and their fine print is going to bleed your P&L.

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