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AI-powered tools like OpenAI's Whisper are allowing many apps to make transcription an integral part of their personal note-taking feature set, and as a result, the field is rapidly flourishing. did. Apps like AudioPen, Cleft Notes, and TalkNotes are proliferating in app stores and on the internet, but most offer a fairly limited feature set. These apps let you record and transcribe notes, and some even offer summarization features, but there's a lot to cover. In terms of features offered. The newest app in this space is Voicenotes. Built by Joji Sunny and his wife Aleesha, founders of creator tipping…
Airtel, India's second-largest telco, on Monday announced a long-term partnership with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and generative AI products to businesses in India. The partnership aims to leverage Airtel's extensive customer base, which the company says includes 2,000 large enterprises and 1 million startups. The two companies plan to offer AI solutions, including generative AI, which Airtel will train using its vast datasets. As part of the partnership, Airtel and Google Cloud will provide businesses with products such as geospatial analytics, location intelligence to identify trends, predictive capabilities, market assessment, site selection, risk management, and asset tracking.…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. is published. As the AI boom continues, we publish these articles throughout the year, highlighting important research that often goes unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Darshun Kendrick was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2010 at the age of 27. She serves on the Small Business Development and Job Creation Committee and the Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee of the Technology and Infrastructure Committee. She also…
Thousands of new venture capital funds have launched over the past few years, each hoping to carve out a long-term, lucrative place for themselves. PitchBook is tracking over 10,000 funds currently trying to raise money, and 45% of them are emerging fund managers, defined as a firm with less than three funds. Those funds are duking it out for a mere 16% of the total capital that limited partner investors will spend on venture capital, according to PitchBook, down from about 23% for the decade that ended in 2019, before the pandemic-era VC frenzy years. More funds fighting for fewer…
Bumble founder and executive chairman Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with comments about how AI will change the dating experience. In an on-stage interview, Bloomberg's Emily Chang cited bots masquerading as real people and real people falling in love with bots as examples of how AI could make online dating worse. Hurd countered that Bumble's goal is to use the technology to “help build healthier, more equitable relationships.” For example, Hurd said that in the “near future” users will be able to discuss their concerns with an AI “dating concierge” who will advise them on how to do…
The UK Safety Institute, the UK's recently established AI safety body, has created a toolset that aims to “strengthen the safety of AI” by making it easier for industry, research and academia to develop AI assessments. has been released. This toolset, called Inspect, is available under an open source license, specifically the MIT license, and is designed to evaluate specific features of an AI model, such as the model's core knowledge and inference capabilities, and to The purpose is to generate a score based on In a press release announcing the news on Friday, the safety association said that Inspect…
In the third episode of Creative Dialogues, an interview series produced by the film production arm of generative AI startup Runway, multimedia artist Claire Henschker discusses how AI is commodifying the artistic process, homogenizing art, and creating certain types of art. They have expressed concern that this may lead to a regression. Derivative identity. “Aren’t the averages of existing ones getting narrower and narrower?” she asks. “And if it keeps getting averaged out, it all just becomes a lump?” These are the questions I kept asking myself Wednesday at Runway's second annual AI Film Festival screening of the top 10…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. is published. As the AI boom continues, we publish these articles throughout the year, highlighting important research that often goes unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Today's featured person: Rachel Caldicutt is the founder of Careful Industries, which studies the social impact of technology on society. Clients include Salesforce and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Prior to Careful Industries, Mr. Coldicutt served as CEO of the think…
StrictlyVC events deliver exclusive insider content from Silicon Valley and the global VC scene, while making meaningful connections over cocktails and canapés with leading investors, entrepreneurs, and executives. And TechCrunch looks forward to collaborating with leading companies from London's investment community at the next StrictlyVC event. We are pleased to have Saul Klein, co-founder of Phoenix Court, joining us. During the event, Saul will have an on-stage fireside chat with Raluca Raghav, Managing Director for the UK and DACH Region and Head of the Eurazeo Growth Fund. We would also like to thank WEX Venture Capital for supporting this special…
Meesho, India's leading e-commerce startup with approximately 150 million trading users, has secured $275 million in a new funding round, the company said in a securities filing. The new funding is part of a larger funding round that will likely include secondary deals and bring the total to more than $500 million, people said. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which operates a social commerce platform of the same name, is valued at about $3.9 billion in new funding, the people said, asking not to be identified as the discussions are still ongoing. . The company has raised more than $1.2 billion to…