Twitter is now paying creators for a share of the ad revenue earned from ads served in the replies to their posts. Users who subscribe to Twitter Blue and have earned more than 5 million tweet impressions each month for the last 3 months are eligible to join. According to owner Elon Musk, the first […]
Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
Telly, the hardware startup that is giving U.S. consumers free dual screen smart TVs that are supported by advertising, announced today that it has started shipping its TVs to its first round of customers. The company says the customers in this initial wave have been invited to participate in its beta program, but did not […]
Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported TVs to its first round of customers by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigating OpenAI over whether the company’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” statements about people. It seems unlikely this will lead to a sudden crackdown, but it shows that the FTC is doing more than warning the AI industry of […]
FTC reportedly looking into OpenAI over ‘reputational harm’ caused by ChatGPT by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
Carl Pei seemed practically giddy when he spotted a pretender on the MWC show floor. He posed for a picture status with the phone and fired off a series a tweets. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all — though most in the industry don’t handle it in such stride. For Pei, on […]
Nothing Phone (2) review by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
As the use cases of generative AI see explosive adaption, China has taken a leading role in defining how the rapidly changing technology should be used, including a licensing regime for service providers. On Thursday, China’s top cyberspace regulator unveiled a set of provisional rules to govern generative AI services, including API providers, that serve […]
China unveils provisional rules for generative AI, including a licensing regime by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Artificial intelligence has been a big theme in the world of health and medical research, and specifically in the area of drug discovery. Today, another hopeful in the space is announcing a funding round to expand its own contribution to the field. Causaly, a London startup that has built an AI platform to help researchers […]
Causaly, an AI platform for drug discovery and biomedical research, raises $60M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
As we reported earlier, Google’s AI chatbot Bard has finally launched in the European Union. We understand it did so after making some changes to boost transparency and user controls — but the bloc’s privacy regulators remain watchful and big decisions on how to enforce the bloc’s data protection law on generative AI remain to […]
Google’s Bard and other AI chatbots remain under privacy watch in the EU by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Skill-Lync, an Indian startup offering upskilling programs, has laid off 20% of its workforce — around 225 employees — to reduce operational costs amid the ongoing, global funding crunch for startups. The five-year-old Chennai-based company, which has its headquarters in Palo Alto, started its most job cutting drive on June 27, TechCrunch learned, but they […]
Indian upskilling platform Skill-Lync cuts 20% jobs to ‘streamline operations’ by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch