Even with burnout, overwhelm, budget cuts, hiring freezes, waves of redundancies and everything else in 2024, there’s still little regulation in the US to stop employers tapping workers to respond to requests either at their desk or through their smartphones and laptops at home. (Of […]
Day: April 3, 2024
AI George Carlin case settled as performers demand better protection
The Dudesy podcast agreed to take the allegedly ai-generated comedy special offline as part of the settlement. | Photo by Mark Junge/Getty Images George Carlin’s estate has reached a settlement with the media company that purportedly used generative artificial intelligence to imitate the late comedian. […]
Full Glass Wine raises $14M to continue DTC marketplaces spree, buys Bright Cellars
Full Glass Wine, a brand acquisition management startup that specializes in acquiring wine marketplaces, has raised a $14 million Series A round to continue acquiring DTC (direct-to-consumer) wine marketplaces, aiming to lead the DTC wine market. DTC wine brands sell wine directly to wine lovers, […]
AWS adds Mistral Large model to Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Web Services makes the Mistral Large model public on Amazon Bedrock, giving developers an advanced LLM from which to build gen AI apps.
The Morning After: California introduces right to disconnect bill
Even with burnout, overwhelm, budget cuts, hiring freezes, waves of redundancies and everything else in 2024, there’s still little regulation in the US to stop employers tapping workers to respond to requests either at their desk or through their smartphones and laptops at home. (Of […]
Cloudflare makes it simple to deploy AI apps with Hugging Face, launches Workers AI to public
Cloudflare opens up its Hugging Face integration to all, making it easy to deploy models with one click, moves its severless inference, Workers AI, generally available.
HD raises $5.6M to build a Sierra AI for healthcare in Southeast Asia
Chatbots have come a long way. For years, they were limited to responding with predetermined replies that followed a simple logic structure. But customers can have complex problems, and no tree-diagram of possible replies can have enough branches to account for all the edge cases […]
The Xiaomi SU7’s Grand Entrance into the EV Market
In the rapidly evolving world of electric vehicles (EVs), a new contender is charging onto the scene with the potential to redefine our expectations from eco-friendly transportation. Xiaomi, a giant…
Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years
The Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch he found at least hundreds of documents containing citizens’ personal information — including Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination data, and passport […]
George Carlin’s estate settles lawsuit against podcasters’ AI comedy special
There will be no follow-up to that AI-generated George Carlin comedy special released by the podcast Dudesy. In January, Carlin’s estate filed a lawsuit against the podcast and its creators Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen, accusing them of violating the performer’s right to publicity and […]

