This Week in AI: The fate of generative AI is in the courts’ hands

June 26, 2024

Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, music labels accused two startups developing AI-powered song generators, Udio and Suno, of copyright infringement. The RIAA, the trade organization representing the music recording industry in the U.S., announced lawsuits against the companies on Monday, brought by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music […]

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TikTok’s Instagram rival, Whee, has no traction

June 26, 2024

Like Instagram, Whee also supports the use of photo filters and includes messaging. However, the company’s plans for Whee aren’t clear.

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Data lakehouse Onehouse nabs $35M to capitalize on GenAI revolution

June 26, 2024

You can barely go an hour these days without reading about generative AI. While we are still in the embryonic phase of what some have dubbed the “steam engine” of the fourth industrial revolution, there’s little doubt that “GenAI” is shaping up to transform just about every industry — from finance and health care to […]

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Unbabel among first AI startups to win millions of GPU training hours on EU supercomputers

June 26, 2024

The European Union has announced the winners of a “Large AI Grand Challenge” it kicked off earlier this year in a bid to accelerate the pace of homegrown innovation by large-scale AI model makers. Four startups will share €1 million in prize money and — perhaps more importantly — eight million GPU hours to train […]

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