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Kelly Marie Trans Art-Forgery Caper Forge Lands May Release (Exclusive)
A crime caper starring Kelly Marie Tran that is set in the art world is ready to make its mark. Utopia Circle Collective has acquired North American rights to writer-director Jing Ai Ng’s feature Forge and will launch it theatrically in May, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The trailer can be seen below for…
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Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India | TechCrunch
As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work — has raised $25 million in its first major funding round, with much of that work carried out by an India-based workforce of experts. The all-equity Series A round was led by A91 Partners, with…
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WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updates, including one that generates AI-powered suggested replies based on your conversations. The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching other features, including a new way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more. Most notably, however, is the…
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Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription | TechCrunch
Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis. Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It…
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Meta gets ready to launch two new Ray-Ban AI glasses
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Meta and its AI glasses hardware partner EssilorLuxottica are getting ready to launch the next generation of their Ray-Ban AI glasses. That’s according to a series of FCC filings for…
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Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation | TechCrunch
French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI….
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A little-known Croatian startup is coming for the robotaxi market with help from Uber | TechCrunch
Mate Rimac, the founder of Croatian electric vehicle maker Rimac Group, started working on electric robotaxis seven years ago. Now part of his vision is coming to fruition through a strategic partnership between Uber, Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai, and his own robotaxi startup Verne. The three companies announced plans Thursday to launch a commercial…
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Dont panic – five ways to stop your kids endless scrolling
“Being on the screen, it keeps us looking at the external world. When we go into our internal world and we sort of stare into space, into the middle distance, it allows us to think about the past, it allows us to visualise the future, it predicts creativity.
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Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems | TechCrunch
The surveillance tech industry today is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tapping into Flock’s camera network to surveil people, and home camera maker Ring drawing criticism for building new features that would enable law enforcement to ask homeowners for footage of their…
