Taylor Swift, a powerful figure in American pop culture, has endorsed Kamala Harris in the presidential election, citing her fears around AI deepfakes. She recently discovered AI-generated content falsely endorsing Donald Trump's presidential run on his website, which sparked her concerns about the dangers of spreading misinformation.
2024-09-11 05:40:42 PM |
Verse, an AI-powered creative app, was founded by Bobby Pinckney and Michelle Yin, former management consultant and engineer, respectively. The app allows users to design and publish multimedia content on an interactive canvas with AI assistance. It enables content creators and influencers to connect with their audience and share information via a link-in-bio format. The app has a strong background, with its founders previously founding a YC-backed music discovery app called Discz, which has over 1.5 million users.
AIVerse | Rating: 42 | 2024-09-11 01:10:34 PM |
A group of Democratic senators, led by Amy Klobuchar, has asked the FTC and Justice Department to investigate whether AI tools that summarize and regurgitate online content may be anti-competitive. The senators argue that dominant online platforms, such as Google and Meta, generate billions of dollars in advertising revenue from news and original content created by others, while journalistic outlets experience consolidation and layoffs.
2024-09-10 10:40:49 PM |
Apple unveiled its AI plans at WWDC in June, which could impact the iPhone 16's potential for a 'supercycle'. The company will reveal the iPhone 16 at the 'It's Glowtime' event in Cupertino tomorrow. Apple Intelligence's slow rollout may hamper the supercycle potential.
2024-09-08 07:33:13 PM |
Someone Somewhere, a Mexico City-based startup founded by Antonio Nuño, Fatima Alvarez, and Enrique Rodriguez, connects rural artisans with global companies seeking sustainable products. The startup works with hundreds of artisans, preserving traditional techniques and stories. The idea germinated when the founders, who were friends since childhood, realized the value of sustainable artisanship while volunteering in indigenous communities.
2024-09-07 12:08:43 PM |
Fivetran, DataStax, and NEA will be discussing the evolution of data infrastructure at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. The panel will feature George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran, Chet Kapoor, chairman and CEO of DataStax, and Vanessa Larco, partner at NEA. They will explore the shift from data accumulation to meaningful integration, and share insights on what's on the horizon for data evolution.
2024-09-06 03:38:51 PM |
The Equity podcast crew discussed real estate, AI agents, and secondary markets, which are a form of legalized gambling. You.com raised $50 million to take on complex AI tasks, such as live search, coding, and natural language understanding. The company aims to be the go-to for these tasks, unlike its competition, and some customers pay for its services.
2024-09-06 02:08:53 PM |
Microsoft partnered with StopNCII to provide a tool for revenge porn victims to create a digital fingerprint of explicit images, allowing platforms like Bing, Facebook, and others to scrub the images from their platforms.
2024-09-05 06:08:46 PM |
Google's AI-powered Ask Photos feature, powered by the Gemini AI model, is rolling out to select customers in the U.S. in early access before expanding to a wider user base. The feature allows users to search their photos using natural language queries, enabling them to ask more complex questions about their photos' content and metadata.
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All Hands AI, a company co-founded by Robert Brennan, has raised $5 million in seed funding to build model-agnostic open source AI agents that can handle routine tasks, allowing developers to focus on creative work. The funding round was led by Menlo Ventures. The company aims to build AI agents that can perform tasks such as writing unit tests, managing dependencies, and keeping documentation up to date.
2024-09-05 04:18:43 PM |