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28 Jun

The Future of Construction Collaboration Virtual and Augmented Reality Tools

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Welcome to the cutting edge of construction! As the construction industry races towards digital transformation, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are emerging as game-changers, enhancing collaboration, increasing efficiency, and significantly reducing errors. Here's how these technologies are reshaping the future of construction. Breaking Ground with Virtual Reality Immersive Project Visualization Imagine walking through a building before it even exists. VR technology enables stakeholders to explore a 3D model of the project, offering a visceral sense of the space and design well before the first brick is laid. This immersive experience helps in identifying potential issues early, saving both…

Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

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Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so, WIRED has learned.An AWS spokesperson, who spoke to WIRED on the condition that they would not be named, confirmed the company’s investigation of Perplexity. WIRED had previously found that the startup—which has backing from the Jeff Bezos family fund, Nvidia, and was recently valued at $3 billion—appears to rely on content from scraped websites that had forbidden access through the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a common…

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

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“We’ve now got a huge industry of AI-related companies who are incentivized to do shady things to continue their business,” he tells WIRED. “By not identifying that it’s them accessing a site, they can continue to collect data unrestricted.”“Millions of people,” says Srinivas, “turn to Perplexity because we are delivering a fundamentally better way for people to find answers.”While Knight’s and WIRED’s analyses demonstrate that Perplexity will visit and use content from websites from which it doesn't have permission to access, that doesn’t necessarily explain the vagueness of some of its responses to prompts about specific articles and the sheer…