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Peanuts, a social networking app for women, is releasing a new feature that allows users to track their pregnancies. The new Peanut Track tool leverages seven years of data from questions asked on social networks and uses AI to predict questions women have at different stages of pregnancy. Founded in 2017, Peanut is an online community dedicated to connecting women at every stage of life, from adolescence to menopause. Now, the company offers women personalized and predictive guidance tailored to each stage of pregnancy. Until now, Peanuts has focused on community and helping women connect with other women by sharing…

Adobe announced the video generation capabilities of its Firefly AI platform ahead of Monday's Adobe MAX event. Starting today, users will be able to test Firefly's video generator for the first time on Adobe's website and explore Generative Extend, a new AI-powered video feature, in the Premiere Pro beta app. On Firefly's website, users can try the text-to-video or image-to-video models, both of which can produce up to five seconds of AI-generated video. (The web beta is free to use, but there may be rate limits.) Demo of Adobe's text-to-video model. Image credit: Adobe Adobe said it has trained Firefly…

Computer vision applications have received a major boost from advances in smartphones and a combination of AI that helps bridge the gap between what everyday devices can't see. With these tools, a Munich startup called Beyond Presence believes it holds the key to what's next. It is a hyper-realistic avatar that looks and sounds exactly like a human and can be used in real-time conversational situations. The startup announced today that it has raised its first external funding, a pre-seed round of $3.1 million. German firm HV Capital led the round, with participation from individuals from 10x Founders, Alba VC,…

Table Space, an Indian managed workspace provider, is targeting a valuation of more than $2.5 billion in an IPO scheduled for next year, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup has hired Axis Securities as bookrunner for its IPO, the people said. Founded in 2017, Table Space leases large office spaces, converts them into service-rich, technology-enabled campuses, and provides customized offices, coworking spaces, and managed meeting rooms to corporate clients. I'm doing it. Hillhouse Capital invested $300 million in Table Space in a funding round in late 2022, and the startup is now valued at around $550…

If you're looking to start a fintech company, there are new, smaller, early-stage funds looking for investment opportunities. Founded by Anthony Dannon (pictured above), Rerail can be described as a microfund, a solo GP fund or an angel fund. Danone has been an investor for the past 10 years. He started his career at Anthemis Group in London in 2014, where he worked on some interesting rounds, including TrueLayer's seed round. He quickly climbed the VC ladder and became a partner at Speedinvest, with a particular focus on fintech. He invested in promising startups such as Primer and Wayflyer. “I…

One of the most arresting aspects of Morgan Neville's documentary about Anthony Bourdain, Roadrunner, was Neville's use of generative AI to recreate Bourdain's voice. Looking back, Neville told Wired that he thought this was a “fun” way to keep up. [Bourdain’s] There are voices in the movie. ” However, his approach drew heavy criticism. Although the synthetic Bourdain only read the words the real Bourdain actually wrote, Neville said many viewers thought, “Oh, they just made it up.” [expletive] above. ” “A lot of people said there were other documentary projects doing the same thing and everyone reacted. They should…

Is it possible to train an AI using only data generated by another AI? It may sound like a crazy idea. But this is data that has been around for quite some time and is gaining traction because new, real data is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Anthropic used some synthetic data to train one of its flagship models, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Meta used AI-generated data to fine-tune the Llama 3.1 model. And OpenAI is said to be sourcing synthetic training data from o1, its “inference” model, for the upcoming Orion. But why does AI need data in the first…

The data center industry is rapidly expanding to keep up with the growth of the AI ​​flywheel. Although these data centers are the necessary AI infrastructure, they house AI companies' computing, are likely to be expensive to build and even operate, and consume significant amounts of energy. Startups are trying to make data centers more efficient and sustainable, but it's not that simple. The global data center market is estimated to be worth $301 billion and is projected to more than double to $622.4 billion by 2030, according to P&S Intelligence. Data centers currently consume approximately 4% of the total…

Few cybersecurity risks facing the United States today loom as large as the potential sabotage by Chinese-backed hackers, which U.S. officials have described as an “epoch-making threat.” are. In recent months, U.S. intelligence officials say hackers backed by the Chinese government have penetrated deep into the networks of critical U.S. infrastructure, including water, energy and transportation systems. Officials say the goal is to lay the groundwork for a potentially devastating cyberattack in the event of a future conflict between China and the United States, including over a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan. . FBI Director Christopher Wray said earlier this…

It's hard to know where to focus when talking to Christoph Koestall. The contents of his jam-packed Palo Alto garage are drawing attention. Immediately to his right stands a tower of electrical components dotted with flashing lights. On the left side is the workbench and the top of the machine tool. Red industrial beams run through the ceiling above. For those who have spent time in a robotics lab, this element is immediately recognizable as the gantry system used to stabilize the robot during the testing phase. In fact, at its far end, the top of the robot's head is…