Elon Musk says X won’t take down unauthorized presidential debate livestreams if CNN makes such a request.
Who is the ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl, and what does it mean?
A woman funnily answered a sexual question during a street interview, and the viral ‘Hawk Tuah’ TikTok girl was born.
Crypto scam victims are being scammed double by fake law firms, FBI warns
Scammers are targeting crypto scam victims by pretending they could get their stolen funds back.
Collina Strada’s Baggu collab is under fire for using AI-generated prints
Collina Strada’s AI-influenced Baggu collab has buyers doubting if the brand is truly committed to sustainability.
This Week in AI: The fate of generative AI is in the courts’ hands
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. […]
Shadow Of The Erdtree, As Told By Steam Reviews
Shadow of the Erdtree is Elden Ring’s only expansion, and is therefore a really big deal. After years of anticipation, it finally landed last week, and players have been digging into it ever since. Evidently there’s a lot there, considering this expansion builds on one of the biggest games I’ve ever played, and the…
Toys ‘R’ Us Showcases Everything You Hate About AI Made Junk
Private equity vultures made Toys ‘R’ Us go bankrupt in 2017. All its U.S. stores closed in 2021. But the zombie brand is still around thanks to a licensing deal with Macy’s. Now it’s using generative AI to reanimate its corpse with an origin story ad that puts its 70-year history in a machine learning blender, just…
Dappier is building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content to LLM builders
When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners.The iPod and the iTunes music store […]
Video editing app Captions releases AI edit feature that automatically adds effects to your video
Video editing app Captions, which is backed by a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and Sequoia Captial, has launched a new feature that takes an existing unedited video and adds custom […]