June 27, 2025

The Download: how to clean up AI data centers, and weight-loss drugs’ side effects

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering a small…

July 2023

Designers sue Shein over AI ripoffs of their work

July 14, 2023

A group of designers are suing Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion firm reportedly valued at $66 billion, for allegedly stealing independent artists’ works “over and over again, as part of a long and continuous pattern of racketeering.” The designers — Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez and Jay Baron — claim in their lawsuit that Shein’s “design ‘algorithm’ […]

Designers sue Shein over AI ripoffs of their work by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

Transforming business begins with IT

July 14, 2023
From securing a hybrid workforce to building pipelines for ever-increasing data streams and keeping multiple mission-critical systems up and running, the modern IT department faces numerous pressures. As director of IT for the packaged food company Conagra, Amit Khot is optimistic about the ways modern technology solutions and infrastructure can enable businesses to thrive and…

Workers that made ChatGPT less harmful ask lawmakers to stem alleged exploitation by Big Tech

July 14, 2023

Kenyan workers who helped remove harmful content on ChatGPT, OpenAI’s smart search engine that generates content based on user prompts, have filed a petition before the country’s legislators calling them to launch investigations on big tech outsourcing content moderation and AI work in Kenya. The petitioners want investigations into the “nature of work, the conditions […]

Workers that made ChatGPT less harmful ask lawmakers to stem alleged exploitation by Big Tech by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch