Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app

Social media startup Fizz is suing grocery delivery giant Instacart and party planning app Partiful for trademark infringement, the company announced on Thursday. Earlier this week, Instacart launched a new drinks and snack delivery app for parties called Fizz and announced that Partiful had integrated Fizz directly into its platform. Founded in 2020, Fizz is a [...]

Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla

Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it has invented a new kind of AI model architecture that’s intentionally small and task-specific. The models are so small they’re trained with low-end gaming GPUs worth [...]

Cybersquatting dispute goes off the rails, ruled reverse domain name hijacking

Both companies have trademarks, and Respondent’s predate the Complainant’s. A UDRP panelist has found Quality Transportation Services, Inc. to have tried reverse domain name hijacking smartrail.com. It filed a cybersquatting case against Regal Rexnord Corporation, a machinery company. Both the Complainant and Respondent have trademark rights for the term Smart Rail/Smartrail, just in different fields [...]