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AI tools are crossing lines, besides setting records. Perplexity has been caught pulling content from websites that blocked AI crawlers. Google’s Med-Gemini invented a fake human body part, and it passed peer review. Musk’s Grok can now turn your text into short, animated videos. And Meta just paid $250 million to lock down a 24-year-old AI researcher.

The race for smarter content, faster tools, and raw talent is heating up. But as the stakes grow, so do the mistakes.

In today’s AI Pulse

• 🕵️‍♂️ Perplexity Scrapes Sites That Blocked AI – Caught ignoring robots.txt and harvesting data behind the scenes.

• 🎬 Musk’s Grok Launches AI Video Tool – Six-second clips from text, sound included. Feels like Vine with a neural twist.

• 💉 Google’s AI Invents Fake Anatomy – Med-Gemini slipped “basilar ganglia” into a real paper. Nobody caught it.

• 🎯 Meta Pays $250M for Open-Source Prodigy – Matt Deitke turned down $125M. Zuckerberg doubled it.

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🕵️‍♂️ Perplexity Scrapes Sites That Banned AI

🧠The Pulse

Perplexity has been caught harvesting data from websites that clearly said “no.” These sites blocked AI scrapers using certain tools. But Perplexity bypassed those signals. News outlets, tech blogs, and content creators are now calling it out. The trust line between publishers and AI tools just snapped.

📌The Download

• Perplexity is a fast-growing AI search startup that pulls answers from live websites. But now it’s facing heat for grabbing data from sources that clearly said no. These include major news publishers, research libraries, and blogs that blocked bots using tools like robots.txt and noAI tags. Perplexity’s crawler ignored those signals and kept pulling pages.

• The issue came to light after publishers checked their server logs. They saw requests tied to Perplexity’s IP addresses. Some tried blocking the bot. But the traffic returned, this time routed through cloud services that made it harder to trace. That pattern matches past behavior from other AI companies who worked around content rules while claiming openness.

• This backlash comes during a tense moment for the AI industry. Companies are already being sued over how they collect and use data. Tools like ChatGPT are under legal fire. Smaller startups are now being watched too. If Perplexity keeps collecting from banned sources, it risks lawsuits, public criticism, and broken trust with creators. But without fresh web content, its answers might fall flat. They either follow the rules or face the consequences.

💡What This Means for You

If your work is published online, it may be fueling AI, even if you opted out. The lines between consent and convenience are blurring. AI tools are racing to stay smart, but they may cut corners to do it. Always check your site logs. And don’t assume your “Do Not Crawl” sign will be respected.

🎬 Elon Musk’s Grok Launches ‘Modern Vine’

🧠The Pulse

Elon Musk just turned his AI chatbot into a mini movie studio. Grok now makes six-second videos from text, complete with sound and motion. The tool, called Grok Imagine, feels like an AI version of Vine. Fast, fun, and strange. And yes, the original Vine archive may come back too.

📌The Download

• Grok Imagine is live for SuperGrok subscribers and available by waitlist for others on X. You type a sentence. Grok replies with a six-second video clip that moves and talks. This is not a static image tool with audio. Instead, it creates fully animated scenes from scratch, based on whatever you imagine.

• The feature is being positioned as entertainment-first. Users are already testing strange, funny, and surreal prompts. Musk wants Grok to feel useful and viral. Vine worked because it was fast. This aims to do the same, but with AI doing the creative heavy lifting. No script, no edit timeline, no camera needed.

• Musk may also bring back the full Vine archive. That gives X a content library to pair with Grok’s new clips, turning the platform into both a museum and a factory. X would own both the classics and the tools to make the next trend. It’s a way to pull creators back into the app, and keep them there.

💡What This Means for You

Short-form content creation is changing again. You won’t need video skills or a team to post something catchy. If you work in marketing, product, or education, this kind of tool speeds up how ideas turn into media. It’s fast, frictionless, and starting to feel like the new normal.

💉 Google’s Medical AI Hallucinates Fake Human Body Part

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Google’s medical AI just invented a body part. Med-Gemini wrote about the “basilar ganglia” in a research paper, and it made it through review. But that body part doesn’t exist. The hallucination is now public, and trust in medical AI has taken a major hit.

📌The Download

• Google’s Med-Gemini model is trained to answer clinical questions and assist with medical writing. In a recent co-authored paper, it inserted a term that doesn’t exist in real anatomy: “basilar ganglia.” The phrase appeared in formal language, presented as fact. The journal didn’t catch it. The authors didn’t flag it. And, that’s how a fictional body part entered the medical record.

• The error was spotted by a radiologist who posted about it online. Within hours, doctors and researchers across the world were debating how this passed review. Some pointed to Google’s AI. Others blamed lazy human co-authors. A few called out the journal for weak oversight. What makes this worse is that the error wasn’t subtle. Anyone in healthcare would’ve caught it in seconds. 

• Google has pushed Med-Gemini as a powerful support tool for doctors. It has shown strong scores on medical licensing tests. But this moment cuts through the hype. If the model can make up fake anatomy with confidence, hospitals and researchers will lose trust. Expect more reviews, more disclaimers, and more caution from regulators.

💡What This Means for You

Even smart AI tools can produce confident nonsense. If you’re using AI to support your work, don’t skip the final check. Treat every answer like a draft, not a decision. When your name is on the line, truth matters more than speed.

🎯 Meta Bets $250M on 24-Year-Old Heats Up Talent War

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Matt Deitke, 24, turned down a $125 million offer. Then Meta offered him $250 million. Mark Zuckerberg closed the deal himself. This isn’t about job titles or teams. It’s about locking down power. Meta is writing nine-figure checks for talent. That alone says where the real value now lies.

📌The Download

• Meta has secured Matt Deitke with a four-year compensation deal worth $250 million. Deitke leads Together AI, an open-source startup that has grown fast in the race against OpenAI and Google. Meta first made a $125 million offer, which he declined. That’s when Zuckerberg got personally involved and doubled the number.

• Deitke is not running a billion-dollar company, but Meta valued his leadership and research as if he were. His work at Together focused on building open-weight foundation models. That’s a direction Meta has been quietly leaning into while keeping most of its AI work inside its walls. The deal wasn’t about hiring a researcher, it was about bringing in a philosophy.

• The numbers are huge, but this trend is getting common. Companies aren’t waiting for acquisitions or funding rounds. They are targeting individual researchers and offering packages that rival startup exits. Anthropic, Google, and xAI are all doing it. These aren’t one-off moves. This is the new recruitment strategy, fast money for high leverage minds.

💡What This Means for You

Big tech is now pricing talent like equity. If you’re building in AI, your resume might matter less than your GitHub or your next model idea. Titles and roles are becoming blurry. What matters is what you’ve built, and who’s willing to buy that future with real money.

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IN AI TODAY - QUICK HITS

⚡Quick Hits (60‑Second News Sprint)

Short, sharp updates to keep your finger on the AI pulse.

• 💰 Tesla Approves $29B Musk Bonus Amid AI Race: Tesla’s board granted Elon Musk nearly 96 million shares to keep him at the helm. The company is betting big on AI, robots, and robotaxis. Plus, it doesn’t want to risk losing Musk. A Delaware judge had voided his earlier $56 billion package, making this a fresh move to retain control.

• 📈 Microsoft Profits Soar as AI Booms Despite 9000 Layoffs: AI and cloud sales pushed Microsoft’s profits up 24%. Satya Nadella says the AI push continues, even as the company trims staff. Investors cheered the results, showing Wall Street still rewards growth, even during layoffs.

• 🎨 AI Will Turn Coding Into Art, says Musk: Elon Musk compared future software development to painting. AI, he said, will take over the grunt work so developers can be more creative. He believes expressive coding will matter more than syntax or structure.

• 💳 Google AI Gets Annual Plan, ChatGPT Falls Behind: Google now offers a yearly plan for $199.99, undercutting month-to-month pricing. ChatGPT still doesn’t have a yearly option, giving Google a first-mover edge. The discount could sway power users who want long-term savings.

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