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Artivion, a medical device company that makes implantable tissues for heart and vascular transplant applications, said its services were “disrupted” due to a cybersecurity incident. In an 8-K filing with the SEC on Monday, Georgia-based Artivion (formerly Cryolife) disclosed a “cybersecurity incident” involving the “capture and encryption” of data on Nov. 21. He said he recognized it. This suggests that the company has suffered damage. However, Artivion has not yet confirmed the nature of the incident and did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's questions. No major ransomware group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Artivion said it took some…

OpenAI seems to be in the holiday spirit. ChatGPT's series of announcements, called “12 Days of OpenAI,” will be livestreamed weekdays at 10 a.m. Pacific time through December 23. On the first day of the event, ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI's $200 monthly subscription plan, was announced as well as the full version. The second day saw a demonstration of “fine-tuning reinforcement.” We don't know what other announcements or product launches are planned, but there could be some surprises like an update to Advanced Audio Mode or the release date of Sora, the long-awaited text-to-video generator. there is. . Below, we'll explain…

Podcast recording platform Riverside announced Monday that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Zeev Ventures with participation from Seven Seven Six and angel investor Sam Lessin. The company hopes to use the funding to grow its team and build solutions for the podcast and content creation space. The startup, founded in 2020, has raised $80 million in funding to date, with Zeev and Seven Seven Six participating in multiple rounds. The startup also counts Casey Neistat, Marques Brownlee, Guy Raz, Elad Gil, and Alexander Klöpping as angel investors. The company's $35 million Series B funding…

Do we really need another social media app for college students? With a TikTok ban looming in the US, a new app called Connyct seems to think so. Connyct is very similar to popular short-form video apps, with personalized content feeds, private chats, music, filters, stickers, and more. We also have an event discovery section and community channels to help students stay connected and bond based on common interests. This new app, initially only available in early access, will be available to more college students starting today. Connyct's launch follows a recent unanimous decision by a federal appeals court to…

It appears that users in the EU and UK will not be able to access Sora (OpenAI's video generation model) at launch. A newly published help page on OpenAI's website lists the regions supported by Sora's “Web and Mobile” and omits all EU countries. OpenAI notes on its page that accessing Sora from outside the listed regions may result in account ban or termination. Sora doesn't seem to be available in the EU and UK https://t.co/WYnARYueHc pic.twitter.com/ApRbL3iH8S — Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) December 9, 2024 We have reached out to OpenAI for comment and will update this article if we hear…

In terms of market capitalization, Nvidia is currently the second largest publicly traded company in the world after Apple. That's why Nvidia has been getting a lot of attention lately. And now, as reported by Bloomberg, public television broadcaster China Central Television is reporting that China's market regulator has opened an investigation into Nvidia's acquisition of Mellanox. This name may not sound familiar, but in 2019, Nvidia spent nearly $7 billion to acquire Mellanox, an Israeli company that develops high-performance chips for supercomputers. The Chinese government approved the acquisition in exchange for several promises. Among other things, Nvidia (and Mellanox)…

WhatsApp has fixed a bug that could allow malicious users to save photos and videos that were meant to be viewed only once and then disappear. TechCrunch reported in September that a bug in the implementation of the “View Once” privacy feature could allow users using WhatsApp's browser-based web app to view and save photos and videos. The View Once feature allows recipients to save, share, forward, copy, or even take screenshots or screen recordings of media sent as a “View Once”, since under normal circumstances photos and videos disappear after viewing. It is designed to prevent this. On Friday,…

Audrey Ziya and Peter Nsaka always wanted to be founders. Djiya's parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were all entrepreneurs, and even when they went into consulting jobs after college, they kept an idea diary, writing about problems they saw and how technology could help solve them. I recorded a method. “I grew up watching my family move goods across borders, so the challenges around international commerce really stuck with me,” she told TechCrunch. She attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she met Nsaka, who had been thinking about the same issues as her. While working as a software engineer…

As more AI companies consume large amounts of Reddit's data to develop their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing its own new conversational AI capabilities. The feature, called Reddit Answers, allows visitors to ask questions and receive a curated summary of relevant answers and threads across the platform, the company announced Monday. This feature will allow Reddit to better compete with AI providers like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Perplexity, which have become popular destinations for users looking for quick and concise answers to their questions. Also, because so many users add the keyword “reddit” to their search…

Alexis Conneau thinks deeply about the movie “Her.” In recent years, he has become obsessed with trying to bring Samantha, the film's fictional voice technology, to life. Conneau also uses a photo of Joaquin Phoenix's character in the film as his Twitter banner. Conneau's X/twitter banner (Image credit: X) He kind of did that with ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, a project Conneau started at OpenAI after doing similar work at Meta. AI systems process audio natively and respond with conversations just like a human would. Now, he's building something better with a new startup called WaveForms AI. Conneau spends a…