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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…
Some Indian government websites allow scammers to post advertisements that can redirect visitors to online betting platforms. TechCrunch has observed around 40 'gov.in' website links related to Indian states including Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Mizoram and Telangana being redirected to online betting platforms. discovered. Some of these websites belong to each state's state police and property tax departments. Fraudulent links are now indexed by search engines like Google, making your ads easier to find online. The redirect website, which is touted as 'Asia's most popular' online betting platform and 'India's number one online cricket betting app', allows betting on games…
Back in September 2021, Cloudsmith raised $15 million in Series A funding for its cloud platform that manages enterprise software supply chains. At the time, this was his largest Series A round for a Northern Ireland company since 2005. So it definitely gave the right result. I was happy to take a look at Cloudsmith's deck and see how it works. Although this document contained some redacted numbers, there was still enough data to get the full picture. We're looking for more unique proposal decks to break down. Here's how to participate: Read a teardown of over 90 proposal decks…
OpenAI plans to make a livestream announcement Monday at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, but is trying to keep expectations in check. The company describes the event as “an opportunity to demo updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4.” Meanwhile, CEO Sam Altman said: Promoted the event with a message”It's not gpt-5, it's not a search engine, but we've been working hard on some new things that we think people will love. It feels like magic to me.” Altman's remarks were likely alluding to a Reuters report published earlier this week suggesting that OpenAI plans to unveil an AI-powered search product on Monday,…
Consumer demand for mobile AI chatbot apps other than ChatGPT may be decreasing. Earlier this month, Anthropic released its first mobile app on iOS, giving both free and paid users access to Claude 3 models. The app offers the same features as his web version, plus the ability to sync history and upload photos, but only received a total of 157,000 downloads worldwide in his first week on the market. I could not do it. Compare this to ChatGPT, where the app was also exclusive to his iOS. ChatGPT recorded 480,000 installs in its first five days since its release…
Just five months after its founding, hard technology startup Layup Parts has secured $9 million in a Founders Fund-led funding round to transform composites manufacturing. Lux Capital and Haystack also participated. This breakneck pace is more than a subtle sign that investors' appetite for technology-centric solutions to the woes of the U.S. industrial base continues unabated. But Layup's ability to close such a large funding round so quickly can be attributed, at least in part, to its founder's own deep experience with the issues plaguing domestic manufacturing. Layup was founded by Zack Eakin, Hanno Kappen, and Elisa Suarez. The trio…
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje's weekly roundup of must-sees from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Friday. Look, I know this is our weekly newsletter about startups. As the world's most valuable company, Apple is in some ways the ultimate “non-startup,” but judging by the site's traffic, you're a very passionate fan. It seems rude not to summarize briefly. Apple held a short 40-minute event this week to introduce the new iPad Air, the new iPad Pro (with fancy new stacked screen technology), the new Magic Keyboard, the new Pencil…