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Laid off from your tech job? Day One wants to give you $100,000 to start a company

November 8, 2022

Day One Ventures, a venture firm launched in 2018 with a pitch to combine venture capital acumen with marketing and communications support, has launched a program aimed explicitly at those impacted by tech layoffs this year. The program, titled “Funded Not Fired,” will write $100,000 checks into 20 startup teams by the end of the […]

Laid off from your tech job? Day One wants to give you $100,000 to start a company by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Salesforce confirms it has laid off hundreds of employees

November 8, 2022

Salesforce laid off hundreds of people this week as the onslaught of tech cutbacks continued unabated. The company would not share an exact number, but said it was less than a thousand, and the people involved were informed yesterday, according to a person close to the company. Protocol first reported the layoffs (although it appears […]

Salesforce confirms it has laid off hundreds of employees by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

November 8, 2022

Generative AI is suddenly everywhere. Over the past year, you’ve probably seen people showcasing impressive AI-generated artworks, thanks to progress in text-to-image algorithms introduced by groups like OpenAI and Stability AI. A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications for this new class of language model, where the machine is capable of creating […]

Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch