It’s not just you: AI startups are receiving a lot of seed funding and, in the process, making things difficult for anyone seeking funding, even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders who are now locked into early-stage expectations.
Suno has long acknowledged that its AI-powered music generator relied on mining millions of songs available on the Internet, but a new hack reveals how the company turned to streaming services and websites like YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius to push its product, all while user information remained vulnerable. A report published in 404 Media
Lily Allen’s “West End Girl” tour was one of the most acclaimed pop outings of the year when it played in U.S. theaters earlier this year, but there was some doubt about whether the intimate, highly theatrical one-woman show would move to large venues when the British singer booked a largely stadium-focused tour for the
The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is one of the largest on record, with more than 1,700 cases confirmed since April. Dozens of governments and health organizations are supporting the public health response caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola virus. Their approaches reveal how global health
Logan Browning had just moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta when she was offered the role of FBI agent Sarah Greer in Harlan Coben’s latest hit Netflix series, “I Will Find You.” “Maybe there’s something special about the water in Atlanta, because everything worked out,” Browning tells me over Zoom. Sarah is not just any
Australian police have released body camera footage showing one of the last attempts to get Bradley Murdoch to reveal the location of Peter Falconio’s body, on the 25th anniversary of his murder. Huddersfield-born Falconio was shot dead on a remote stretch of road near the Northern Territory town of Barrow Creek in July 2001 while