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The company behind a phone app for determining a food’s nutritional value has amassed $32 million in debt and still owes back pay to two dozen ex-employees as it shuts down. Opsis Health, of Highlands Ranch, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy March 15, less than one year after it launched Plateful, the company’s signature phone app. Chapter 7 requires a company to liquidate its assets and distribute them among those it owes money to. Plateful allows users to scan 1 million foods, then assigns those foods both a nutritional…

Billionaire Elon Musk can’t sue his way into artificial general intelligence, fellow billionaire and OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla said in an interview on Bloomberg TV.Musk, who was on the founding team of OpenAI, filed a lawsuit earlier this month against the company, accusing it of straying too far from its mission and becoming beholden to its largest investor, Microsoft Corp.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in…

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering all of — or at least the bulk of! — noteworthy happenings around the tech-o-sphere. This week, Roku played hardball with its customers, requiring them to consent to new dispute resolution terms. This means users can’t use their Roku devices until agreeing to the terms (or opting out via snail mail), which requires any customer with legal complaints against Roku to take them to the company’s lawyers first. In other…

Photo: monticello (Shutterstock)If you’re a Roku user, you may have noticed a new user agreement pop up on your screen over the last several days. If, for whatever reason, you did not comply with this agreement, you probably haven’t been able to stream since. How The Last Airbender Inspired Lisette OliveraTechCrunch notes that it’s virtually impossible to avoid signing Roku’s new agreement if you want to continue using your TV. I, myself, thoughtlessly clicked through the agreement the other day, presuming it was…

(Reuters) – Four former top Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for over $128 million in combined unpaid severance, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, is the latest in a series of legal challenges the billionaire faces after he acquired the social media company for $44 billion in October 2022 and later renamed it X.The other plaintiffs are Ned Segal, Twitter’s former chief financial officer; Vijaya Gadde, its former chief…

OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a fresh round of lawsuits from news publishers over allegations that their generative artificial intelligence products violated copyright laws and illegally trained by using journalists’ work. Three progressive US outlets – the Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet – filed suits in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, demanding compensation from the tech companies.The news outlets claim that the companies in effect plagiarized copyright-protected articles to develop and operate ChatGPT, which…

European news media companies sued Google for roughly $2.1 billion in damages Wednesday over allegations that the tech giant’s ad technology practices have harmed them.   The case, filed by more than 30 European news media companies is the latest challenge to the California-based company over its ad technology, including a case launched by the Department of Justice last year. The companies suing include Axel Springer, the German-based company that owns Politico, Reuters reported. “The media companies…

Legal claims are starting to pile up against Microsoft and OpenAI, as three more news sites have sued the firms over copyright infringement, The Verge reported. The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet filed separate lawsuits accusing ChatGPT of reproducing news content "verbatim or nearly verbatim" while stripping out important attribution like the author's name.The sites, all represented by the same law firm, said that if ChatGPT trained on copyright material, it "would have learned to communicate that information when…

February 28, 2024 @ 1:59 PM Three digital media outlets — Raw Story, Alternet and The Intercept — filed lawsuits against OpenAI for copyright infringement on Wednesday, adding to industry pushback against the technology company’s method of training chatbots.  Both lawsuits, one filed by The Intercept and the other filed collectively by Raw Story and Alternet, accuse the artificial intelligence company of using copyrighted works by journalists without proper attribution to train large language models. The suits…

The coalition of European media organizations allege they incurred losses from less competition in the advertising technology market. The coalition of European media organizations allege they incurred losses from less competition in the advertising technology market. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their…