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Wonder Dynamics now lets you go straight from multi-camera video to fully animated 3D scene

Wonder Dynamics made a strong opening play in AI-enhanced visual effects, providing tools animators and filmmakers actually find useful — and earning the startup a prompt acquisition by Autodesk. Their latest tool further automates the animation process, letting you put in practically any video and get a fully editable 3D scene, characters and all. The […]

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Foster sisters explain why they haven’t invested in AI

Oversubscribed Ventures co-founder Sara Foster (above right) made a confession onstage on Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. “I don’t even have ChatGPT on my phone,” she said. It’s an unexpected comment from an investor, given that ChatGPT is arguably the most influential product to launch this decade. But what makes the Foster sisters different from

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Erin and Sara Foster from Oversubscribed Ventures talk consumer, culture and creators

Erin and Sara Foster, two of the venture industry’s most famous sisters, sit down alongside business partner Phil Schwarz at Disrupt 2024 to talk about their VC firm Oversubscribed Ventures, consumer investing, culture curation, and what it means to be a creator in the modern age. Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube Follow TechCrunch on

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2024 Startup Battlefield Top 20 Finalists: VRTL

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Instagram is lowering video quality for unpopular videos

The popularity of an Instagram video can affect its actual video quality: According to Adam Mosseri (the Meta executive who leads Instagram and Threads), videos that are more popular get shown in higher quality, while less popular videos get shown in lower quality. In a video (via The Verge), Mosseri said Instagram tries to show

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Classic Christmas song gets authorized Spanish reworking thanks to ‘responsible’ AI

In the decades following its 1958 release, Brenda Lee’s rockabilly-tinged “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has attained status as an all-time holiday classic. Sixty-six years later, it’s getting a Spanish language rework courtesy of “responsible” AI. Universal on Friday announced the release of “Noche Buena y Navidad,” which utilized SoundLabs AI’s MicDrop technology to reconstruct

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Meta suspends accounts tracking private jets of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other celebrities

Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities – including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Kylie Jenner – were suspended on Monday, according to the owner of many such accounts, Florida college student, Jack Sweeney. Links to Instagram/Threads accounts tracking the flights of former President Donald

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‘Blade Runner 2049’ producer accuses Musk and Tesla of circumventing copyright with AI imagery

In an interesting variation of the usual “stop stealing our stuff” lawsuit already deployed dozens of times against AI companies, today brings a more nuanced form of alleged theft. Alcon Entertainment, a production company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” is suing Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros Digital for what they claim is a willful circumvention

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WP Engine files an injuction to get its WordPress.org access back

Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court in North California, asking it to intervene and restore its access to the WordPress.org open-source repository. After WP Engine filed a lawsuit against WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and Automattic last month, Mulleweng — who also owns WordPress.org — blocked the company’s access to

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Apple Music’s latest feature lets artists create dedicated playlists for concerts and tours

Apple Music introduced a new feature for artists on Thursday to enable them to create playlists tied to their recent concert set lists.  Dubbed “Set List,” the feature acts as a new promotional tool for musicians to engage with their fans. It allows artists to turn their set list from a single show, residency, or

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