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Former Alphabet X spinout Mineral sells technology to John Deere

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Earlier this year, reports surfaced that Alphabet had closed the book on its ag-tech robotics spinout, Mineral. The news arrived amid larger money crunches at Google’s parent. Citing a crowded market and profit concerns, Mineral ceased operation and pivoted to technology licensing. This month, Mineral CEO Elliott Grant reprinted the leaked memo, while confirming that […]

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Alphabet X’s latest spinout brings computer vision and AI to salmon farms

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Over the course of Alphabet X’s existence, the self-proclaimed “moonshot factory” has been notable for the variety in both its technological solutions and the problems it’s attempting to solve. The combination research facility/accelerator has produced balloons for rural internet and energy-producing kites. Tidal, which quietly spun out of the department in mid-July, has its own

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Harmonyze wants to build AI agents to help franchisors make sense of unstructured data

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For some businesses, there is a clear path to growth that doesn’t involve acquiring other companies or expanding organically: franchising. The U.S. has more than 800,000 franchise businesses, according to Statista, and that number is predicted to keep growing year over year. But franchising a business — licensing a business model and brand to an

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D-ID launches an AI video translation tool that includes voice cloning and lip sync

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AI video creation platform D-ID is the latest company to ship a tool for translating videos into other languages using AI technologies. However, in this case, D-ID also clones the speaker’s voice and changes their lip movements to match the translated words as part of the AI editing process. The technology stems from D-ID’s earlier

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Story raises $83M at a $2.25B valuation to build a blockchain for the business of content IP in the age of AI

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Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI have faced a lot of heat over how they have scraped and mis-used intellectual property owned by others when training and operating their foundational AI models. Now, a startup called Story that is building a blockchain-based platform to help IP owners track usage more effectively is announcing $83

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