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Facebook, Instagram, Snap, YouTube and other social networking companies offer programs that connect creators with brands, and Spotify is doing the same. The company announced the launch of AUX, a new in-house “music advisory agency” for brands. Although not necessarily a creator marketplace, this program has a similar purpose. We foster connections between brands and emerging artists, delivering a variety of campaigns that benefit both parties. AUX is also another revenue stream for Spotify, with the company saying it allows brands to pay Spotify to use the new service. The consultancy's first client is Coca-Cola, as the drinks giant partners…

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. Start. As the AI ​​boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Crystal Kaufman worked as a political and issue campaign organizer for 10 years before earning a degree in geology. She then turned to gig work and connected with Turkopticon, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of gig workers,…

centered on AI Because it's a well-deserved and overdue time for women academics and others to be in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI ​​revolution. As the AI ​​boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. As a reader, if you see a name we missed and think it should be on the list, please email us. I will try to add more. Here are the key players you should know about. Gender…

Resume and recruitment platform Hellohive seeks to help eliminate hiring bias by creating a virtual community that includes employers and people looking for new roles. The company is part of a growing number of resume and skills apps to combat discrimination in the hiring process. Hellohive provides candidates from underrepresented or marginalized backgrounds the opportunity to connect with employers they may not otherwise have had the opportunity to meet. It also gives employers the opportunity to consider candidates seeking skills outside of where they went to school or where they have previously worked, allowing for a more holistic approach to…

Canada-based venture capital firm Golden Ventures has committed more than $100 million to its fifth fund targeting high-potential seed-stage founders across technologies such as AI, climate change, blockchain, and quantum. The investment commitment has been completed. Founder and managing partner Matt Golden founded the Toronto-based firm in 2011 and assembled a team that includes general partner Ameet Shah and new principal Nick Chen. “This is a continuation of our core themes and was created very much to align with founders,” Golden told TechCrunch. “Amate and I are both former founders. Our first fund was mobile-focused and reflected our sector expertise…

TikTok today announced that it is launching a new “Add to Music” feature in 163 countries that lets users add the song playing on a clip to services like Apple Music and Spotify. These new regions include Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Cambodia, Cameroon, Denmark, Egypt, Ghana, Guyana, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, Maldives, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, and Paraguay. , includes Qatar. , Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe (full list). TikTok first introduced the feature in the US and UK in November. A month later, the company expanded availability to 19 more countries, including…

Large training data sets are the gateway to powerful AI models, but they can also often break down those models. Bias arises from patterns of bias hidden in large datasets, such as photos of mostly white CEOs in an image classification set. Big data sets can also be complex because they come in a format that is incomprehensible to models, one that contains a lot of noise and extraneous information. A recent Deloitte survey of companies implementing AI found that 40% said data-related challenges, including thorough data preparation and cleaning, were one of the top concerns hindering their AI efforts.…

Ina Herlihy believes that e-commerce brands are losing out on organic traffic and potential revenue by relying on third-party community sites like Reddit and Facebook groups. With new user acquisition costs increasing by hundreds of dollars in some cases, brands must pay more attention to retention and organic traffic growth, Herlihy told TechCrunch via email. By building an on-site HE community, brands can increase retention rates and drive more organic HE traffic because the community is on its own domain. In late 2022, Herlihy began building community software that allows brands to host communities on their websites. The result is…

Google has announced that it will temporarily suspend the ability of its flagship generative AI model suite, Gemini, to generate images of people while it works to update its models to improve the historical accuracy of its output. in post The company announced on social media platform “While we do this, we will pause human image generation and plan to re-release an improved version soon,” the company added. We are already working to address recent issues with Gemini's image generation capabilities. While we do this, we will pause human image generation and plan to re-release an improved version soon. https://t.co/SLxYPGoqOZ…

Meta's external advisory group, the Oversight Board, announced today that it is expanding its scope to Threads, along with Facebook and Instagram, to scrutinize Meta's content moderation decisions. This means that if users of the thread are dissatisfied with Meta's decisions on issues such as content or account deletion, they can appeal to the Oversight Board. “The Board's expansion to Threads builds on our foundation of helping meta solve the toughest content moderation problems. It is critical that we hold ourselves accountable,” Oversight Committee Co-Chair Helle Thorning-Schmidt said in a statement. In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg spoke publicly for the first…