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Lenovo just had the best month on the stock market it has seen in nearly three decades. Shares of the world's biggest PC maker more than doubled in May, surging one hundred and nine percent after the company revealed that AI-related revenue now accounts for thirty-eight percent of quarterly sales. Goldman Sachs more than doubled its price target in response.
That AI boom, though, is running into legal headwinds elsewhere. CNN has become the latest major media company to file suit against Perplexity, the AI-powered search startup. The case follows a growing wave of litigation from publishers who argue that Perplexity reproduces their journalism without permission or payment, raising hard questions about where AI summarization ends and copyright infringement begins.
And a new report from TechRadar puts a number on a problem many workers already feel in their bones. Only around half of employees who use AI tools regularly have received any formal training from their employers. Companies are rolling out powerful technology and then stepping back, leaving workers to figure it out alone — which, as one researcher put it, turns AI adoption into a game of chance.
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