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Social media company Snap announced Tuesday that it plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on its platform. The platform has added a small ghost logo with a glowing icon to indicate AI-generated images. The company says the watermark will appear when you export the image or save it to your camera roll. Snap will use its own tools to display a glittering Ghost logo on AI-generated images.Image credit: Snap The company said on its support page that removing Snap's “glitter watermark ghost” violates its terms. It's unclear how Snap intends to detect watermark removal. We have reached out to…
Former SpaceX senior executive Tom Ochinero teams up with SpaceX alumnus-turned-VC Achal Upadhyaya and Spencer Hemphill, one of Sequoia's top financial leaders, in a new venture called Interlagos Capital According to research by TechCrunch, this is the case. Little information has been made publicly available about Interlagos, and the three individuals did not respond to TechCrunch's requests for comment. The company was officially incorporated in Delaware on March 7 and registered as an out-of-state corporation in California a few days earlier, on April 11. Ochinello, Upadhyaya and Hemphill are all on the docket. Its principal address is in El Segundo,…
The round could total $870 million, including $670 million worth of secondary funding. Late-stage HRtech startup Ripped is raising new funding. The company's new round, which has not yet been completed, will inject $200 million into Rippling, with an additional $670 million worth of shares sold by existing shareholders, according to two people familiar with the deal. It's planned. This will be Rippling's Series F, with a post-money valuation that could rise to as much as $13.4 billion, which it reached when it last raised a $500 million Series E exactly a year ago. That's more than its valuation of…
Once the Kickstarter campaign is complete, you'll need to visit the creator's own page to pre-order the product. That is, until now. Today, Kickstarter announced that they will (finally!) include pre-order functionality as part of the core platform once the campaign ends. The feature is called “Late Pledges,” and the platform says it plans to make it available to all creators “soon.” Those who follow the industry will likely greet this announcement with an eye roll and a “welcome to the club” feeling, as Indiegogo launched a comparable service, his InDemand, almost a decade ago. Sho. Party-ness aside, Kickstarter has…
Will generative AI designed for the enterprise (AI that auto-completes formulas in reports, spreadsheets, etc.) ever become interoperable? Together with related organizations like Cloudera and Intel, we are supporting and supporting a growing number of open source efforts. The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization that sustains it, aims to find out. The Linux Foundation today announced the launch of Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA). This is a project that fosters the development of open, multi-provider, configurable (i.e. modular) generative AI systems. Under the Linux Foundation's LFAI and Data organization, which focuses on AI and data-related platform initiatives, OPEA's goal…
One cryptocurrency wallet maker claimed this week that hackers may be targeting people with an iMessage “zero-day” exploit, but all signs point to an exaggerated threat, if not an outright scam. It shows. Trust Wallet’s official X (formerly Twitter) account I have written “We have received reliable information about a high-risk zero-day exploit targeting iMessage on the dark web, which can compromise your iPhone without even clicking a link. High-value target may be present. Each use increases the risk of detection. The wallet maker recommended that iPhone users turn off iMessage completely “until Apple patches this,” even though there is…
Truth Social, the social media platform owned by President Donald Trump's media company, has announced plans to launch a live television streaming platform. According to a press release, the platform will focus on “news networks” and “religious channels,” as well as “other content that has been canceled, is at risk of cancellation, or suppressed on other platforms and services.” That's what it means. The service also includes “family friendly” content such as movies and documentaries. The streaming service will launch in three phases. The company will initially deploy Truth Social's CDN (content delivery network) for streaming to the Truth Social…
Rather than being another LLM, Betaworks embraces the AI trend with a number of agent-type models that automate routine tasks that are not so simple to define. The investor's newest “Camp” incubator has incubated and funded nine AI agent startups that it hopes will take on today's more tedious tasks. While many of these companies' use cases seem promising, AI tends to have a difficult time keeping promises. Would you trust a shiny new AI to categorize your emails? What about extracting and structuring information from web pages? Who cares if AI can slot meetings anywhere? ? There is an…
Starting Tuesday, Apple will begin web distribution of its iOS apps to users in the European Union. Developers who opt in and meet Apple's standards, including app notarization requirements, will be able to offer iPhone apps for download directly to their EU users from their own website. This is a major change for the mobile ecosystem that prevents so-called “sideloading.” Apple's walled garden attitude has so far allowed it to funnel almost all of its iOS developer revenue into its own App Store. But in the EU, that moat is being dismantled as a result of new regulations that apply…
Climate change investor Bay Bridge Ventures has raised $200 million in new funding, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Baybridge filed documents Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its new climate change fund. The increase comes as venture investors have become increasingly bullish on climate-changing technologies. While the overall venture market has been in a downturn in recent years, many companies have raised eye-popping amounts of money to support climate change technology founders. SOSV on Tuesday announced a $306 million deep tech fund with a 70% focus on climate change. New Summit Investments is raising his $100 million impact…