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Mixhalo’s latest feature uses AI to beam real-time translation to phones at events

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Live event audio streaming platform Mixhalo this week announced the launch of a new translation offering. The simply named Mixhalo Translate couples the startup’s ultra-low latency in-person streaming with AI-generated audio translations. It’s a pairing that makes plenty of sense in a conference setting. “Interpretation at conferences and live events is done the same way […]

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​​What Vinod Khosla Says He’s ‘Worried About the Most’

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Vinod Khosla is more popular than ever right now. The Sun Microsystems co-founder turned prominent investor — first at Kleiner Perkins and, for the last 20 years, at his venture firm Khosla Ventures — has always been sought after by founders thanks to his no-nonsense advice and his firm’s track record, including bets on Stripe,

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Women in AI: Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance

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To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Anika Collier Navaroli is a senior fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and a Technology Public

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Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent

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To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Charlette N’Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology and artificial intelligence

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Meta is tagging real photos as ‘Made with AI,’ say photographers

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Earlier in February, Meta said that it would start labeling photos created with AI tools on its social networks. Since May, Meta has regularly tagged some photos with a “Made with AI” label on its Facebook, Instagram, and Threads apps.  But the company’s approach of labeling photos has drawn ire from users and photographers after

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Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a supercharged coding co-pilot

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Paris has quickly established itself as a major European center for AI startups, and now another deal in the works could cement that position even further.  Poolside.ai, a generative AI company based out of Paris that is building tools to speed up software development, is in the process of raising at least $400 million, on

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Kenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspension

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Worldcoin — the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning and other operations in Kenya after a year-long government probe over privacy concerns was dropped. Kenya was one of the Worldcoin’s launch countries for its iris-scanning scheme — which the startup was building out as

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