‘Diarra From Detroit’: Diarra Kilpatrick Gushes Over Being ‘Paid’ to Kiss Co-Star Morris Chestnut (Exclusive)

Diarra Kilpatrick is making her mark on TV with a new dark comedy crime series Diarra From Detroit, and the celebrated actress and writer is still wrapping her head around everything she’s accomplished with her new project. Kilpatrick walked the purple carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of her new BET+ series on Wednesday, and … Read more

Australia Extends Paid Parental Leave, Remains Below Average

Most developed countries today offer some amount of support for new parents to take time off work just before and after childbirth or adoption. Australia’s Senate just passed legislation on Monday to extend its total paid leave offered to new parents to 26 weeks, instead of the current 20 weeks, beginning in 2026. For parents … Read more

The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China

In December, Pandabuy announced on its official Discord server that more than 15,000 influencers joined its affiliate marketing program last year, thanking them for their “dedicated efforts” with two emojis of Pepe the Frog clutching a red heart. That’s a small number compared to Amazon’s roughly 900,000 affiliates, but trading in counterfeits is illegal. If … Read more

The Trump campaign paid an expert $750,000 to find fraud in the 2020 election, only for him to dismiss their complaints in minutes

A new book sheds light on the lengths Trump’s campaign went to find fraud in the 2020 election. Ken Block, a software engineer, revealed he was paid about $750,000 to help conduct the search. Despite the massive payday, Block told BI he disproved many of the fraud claims in minutes. A big business cropped up … Read more

Why does every startup want to help you get paid?

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at the piping hot global payroll space, neobank Dave’s financial results and related stock boost, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big story … Read more

Adam Sandler & Margot Robbie Highest Paid Actors in 2023, Big Gap

Adam Sandler and Margot Robbie were 2023’s highest-paid actors — but one is definitely making more than the other (and all the rest, too) with the difference being … Netflix. Forbes put out a list of all the big-shot actors who cleaned up last year — and their ranking based on the numbers is interesting … Read more

Don Lemon Reportedly Paid $24.5 Million Upon Exiting CNN

Don Lemon was handsomely compensated after being fired from CNN last year — in fact, it’s almost as if he never left … ’cause the dude’s definitely getting paid like it, per a new report. According to the Wrap, the former CNN anchor finally reached a deal with his former bosses at the cable news … Read more

A magician says a Democratic operative paid him to make the fake Biden New Hampshire robocall that is under investigation

NEW ORLEANS — A Democratic consultant who worked for a rival presidential campaign paid a New Orleans magician to use artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden for a robocall that is now at the center of a multistate law enforcement investigation, according to text messages, call logs and Venmo transactions the creator shared with … Read more

Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s Families Sitting in Suite Together, He Paid

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s families are getting super close … taking in Sunday’s big game from a suite together TMZ has learned — and, like a gentleman, Travis is paying. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Taylor’s mom, Andrea, dad Scott, brother Austin and his girlfriend Sydney are going to sit with Travis’ … Read more

Google goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra

Google Bard is no more. Almost exactly a year after first introducing its (rushed) efforts to challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company is retiring the name and rebranding Bard as Gemini, the name of its family of foundation models. More importantly, though, it is also now launching Gemini Ultra, its most capable large language model yet. … Read more