Perplexity recently announced a partnership with several well-known media outlets to jointly create a customized Q&A engine powered by artificial intelligence. The company's business director, Dmitry Shevelenko, revealed that this initiative has been in the works since January of this year, aimed at promoting the company's own development.

According to a report by 404 Media, the owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com is in talks with AI companies Midjourney and OpenAI. Automattic plans to share data with third parties, including training data obtained from user posts. The company has scraped all public post content from Tumblr from 2014 to 2023, including content that will not be publicly displayed.

Automattic negotiates with Midjourney and OpenAI to share user posts as training data. Automattic plans to allow users to opt out of sharing data with third parties. Other companies are also collaborating with AI firms to provide training data, leading to protests from creators.