Tag: In Brief

Geekbench releases AI benchmarking app

Benchmarking stalwarts Primate Labs on Thursday released Geekbench AI 1.0. The app, which is currently available for Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows, applies...

Palo Alto Networks CEO apologizes for happy hour display featuring women with lampshades on their heads

Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is getting a lot of grief for a recent trade show event in which two women posed with...

Databricks reportedly paid $2 billion in Tabular acquisition

Analytics and AI giant Databricks reportedly paid nearly $2 billion when it acquired Tabular in June, a startup that was only doing $1...

Thiel’s Gawker takedown could be coming to a theater near you

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have acquired a screenplay called “Killing Gawker,” which presumably delves into billionaire VC Peter Thiel’s campaign to bury...

UAW files federal labor charges against Trump, Musk for intimidating workers at X Spaces event

The United Auto Workers union said Tuesday that it filed federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The union alleges that Trump...

Artists’ lawsuit against generative AI makers can go forward, judge says

A class action lawsuit filed by artists who allege that Stability, Runway and DeviantArt illegally trained their AIs on copyrighted works can move...