March 2023

Meta barred by Kenyan court from engaging its new content moderation partner

March 21, 2023

Meta has been temporarily barred by a Kenyan court from engaging its new content moderation subcontractor, Majorel, pending the hearing of a new case, filed by 43 content moderators yesterday over illegal sacking and blacklisting. The interim injunction has also barred Sama, Meta’s outgoing content moderation partner, from effecting any form of redundancy. The hearing […]

Meta barred by Kenyan court from engaging its new content moderation partner by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

Adobe promises artists will be compensated fairly with new generative AI product, but is fuzzy on details

March 21, 2023

One of the big problems with generative AI is understanding what source material was used to train the large language models underlying the solution. This comes down to two main problems for users: Do they have permission to use that underlying work, and will the artist or writer be compensated for that use. In an […]

Adobe promises artists will be compensated fairly with new generative AI product, but is fuzzy on details by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI

March 21, 2023

At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy. Under the brand Nvidia AI Foundations, each individual cloud service — Nvidia NeMo for language models and Nvidia Picasso […]

Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Spotify brings its new audiobooks service to Canada

March 21, 2023

Spotify’s still relatively new audiobooks service is expanding to Canada, the company announced today, bringing the experience to both English and French-speaking customers. Launched last fall, Spotify initially debuted audiobooks to U.S. users only with a catalog of some 300,000 titles. It later rolled out the option to shop audiobooks to other English-speaking markets back in […]

Spotify brings its new audiobooks service to Canada by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

WhatsApp’s new feature gives admins an easier way to control who can join a group

March 21, 2023

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced an update for groups on WhatsApp that is designed to give admins more control over who can join a group. Zuckerberg also revealed a feature that makes it easier for users to discover what groups they have in common with someone. The company says it wanted to give admins […]

WhatsApp’s new feature gives admins an easier way to control who can join a group by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch