The New York Times has sent generative AI startup Perplexity a “cease and desist” notice demanding the company stop using its content.
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The New York Times has sent generative AI startup Perplexity a “cease and desist” notice demanding the company stop using its content, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The letter from the news publisher said the way Perplexity was using its content, including to create summaries and other types of output, violates its rights under copyright law, the report said.

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, publishers have been raising the alarm on chatbots which can comb the internet to find information and creating paragraph summaries for the user.

Perplexity and the New York Times did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.

NYT is also tussling with OpenAI, which it had sued late last year, accusing the firm of using millions of its newspaper articles without permission to train its AI chatbot.

Other media firms such as The Atlantic and Vox Media have signed content licensing deals with OpenAI which give the ChatGPT-maker access to their content.

In the letter to Perplexity, NYT asked the company to provide information on how it is accessing the publisher’s website despite its prevention efforts, according to the WSJ report.

Perplexity had previously assured the publisher it would stop using “crawling” technology, the report said citing the letter.

Earlier this year, Reuters reported multiple AI companies were bypassing a web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their data used in generative AI systems.

Perplexity faced accusations from media organizations such as Forbes and Wired for plagiarizing their content, but has since launched a revenue-sharing program to address some concerns put forward by publishers.

Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends.

Some days are trickier than others. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And if you still can’t get it, we’ll tell you today’s answers at the very end.

How to play Connections

In Connections, you’ll be shown a grid containing 16 words — your objective is to organize these words into four sets of four by identifying the connections that link them. These sets could encompass concepts like titles of video game franchises, book series sequels, shades of red, names of chain restaurants, etc.

There are generally words that seem like they could fit multiple themes, but there’s only one 100% correct answer. You’re able to shuffle the grid of words and rearrange them to help better see the potential connections.

Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is the easiest to figure out, followed by the green, blue, and purple groups.

Pick four words and hit Submit. If you’re correct, the four words will be removed from the grid and the theme connecting them will be revealed. Guess incorrectly and it’ll count as a mistake. You only have four mistakes available until the game ends.

Hints for today’s Connections

We can help you solve today’s Connection by telling you the four themes. If you need more assistance, we’ll also give you one word from each group below.

Today’s themes

• FOOTBALL POSITIONS
• CABLE CHANNELS
• FICTIONAL CLOWNS
• WHAT “D” MIGHT STAND FOR

One-answer reveals

• FOOTBALL POSITIONS – CENTER
• CABLE CHANNELS – DISCOVERY
• FICTIONAL CLOWNS – HOMEY
• WHAT “D” MIGHT STAND FOR – DEFENSE

Today’s Connections answers

Still no luck? That’s OK. This puzzle is designed to be difficult.  If you just want to see today’s Connections answer, we’ve got you covered below:

• FOOTBALL POSITIONS – CENTER, GUARD, QUARTERBACK, SAFETY
• CABLE CHANNELS – DISCOVERY, HISTORY, NICKELODEON, OXYGEN
• FICTIONAL CLOWNS – HOMEY, JOKER, PENNYWISE, RONALD
• WHAT “D” MIGHT STAND FOR – DEFENSE, DEMOCRAT, DIMENSIONAL, DRIVE

Connections grids vary widely and change every day. If you couldn’t solve today’s puzzle, be sure to check back in tomorrow.