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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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SleekFlow snaps up $7M to tap the conversational AI opportunity across Asia  

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SleekFlow, a Singapore- and Hong Kong-headquartered social commerce platform that has built a conversational AI suite for customer engagement targeted to Asian markets, said Wednesday it had secured a further $7 million in funding. The money will be used to continue developing its AI, as well as penetrate deeper into Southeast Asia and the Middle

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Is your company AI-washing? Rippling founder Parker Conrad thinks it might be.

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Parker Conrad, founder of Rippling, an HR startup valued at $13.5 billion, shared some interesting thoughts about AI during a recent appearance on our Found podcast.  “No one actually wants to chat with their HR software beyond the sort of novelty of like, oh, my gosh, it responds to me,” he said. He also thinks

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OpenAI signs deal to train on Condé Nast content, surface stories in ChatGPT

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OpenAI has inked a deal with Condé Nast — the publisher of storied outlets such as The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Wired — to surface stories from Condé Nast properties in OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT and its search prototype SearchGPT. The specific terms of the partnership weren’t disclosed. But in

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Defcon AI closes $44M seed round to solve a problem of ‘maximum complexity’: Military logistics

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The U.S. Department of Defense is a mammoth organization. It not only employs millions of service members and hundreds of thousands of civilian employees, but also has the world’s largest military budget that’s used to buy and maintain more equipment than can likely fit into a single paragraph.  It’s a lot to coordinate. Operators within

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