South Korean tech giant Kakao wants a piece of the action in the generative AI race, and today it made a bid for it, with big updates to its AI image generator Karlo and its KoGPT large language model and a new fund to back AI image generating startups. Kakao’s AI division Kakao Brain‘s launch […]
Kakao ups its game in generative AI with Karlo 2.0, an AI image generator by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
Resemble AI, a platform that uses generative AI to clone realistic-sounding voices, today announced that it raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures. The tranche, which brings the startup’s total raised to $12 million, will be put toward further developing Resemble’s […]
Voice cloning platform Resemble AI lands $8M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
InvGate works with enterprise and mid-size companies, offering a SaaS solution to streamline their IT operations.
Bootstrapped since 2009, IT management company InvGate raises $35M by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Tricentis, a test automation platform that has acquired quite a few testing services and startups over the years, is making another M&A move with the acquisition of Waldo, an automated testing tool for mobile development teams. I have covered Waldo several times over the past few years. The company has raised a seed round led […]
Testing automation platform Tricentis acquires Waldo by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Acquiring Linode allowed Akamai to fast-track its broader cloud computing ambitions. Today, the company is taking another step in this direction. It’s announcing the expansion of its cloud computing services to five new locations: Paris, Washington, D.C. and Chicago, which are going live now, and Seattle and Chennai, which will open later this quarter. Akamai […]
Akamai expands its cloud computing footprint with new locations and services by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Global supply chains have made the world smaller by enabling us to have virtually anything we want at the tap of a finger. But when it comes to things like verifying a physical object’s origin or its composition, those same fragmented chains and the many steps between a producer and a buyer can be an […]
Oritain raises $57M for its forensic, big-data science approach to tracking the origin of goods by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
The U.S. government accused a cybersecurity professional of hacking a cryptocurrency exchange and stealing around $9 million in cryptocurrency, in what looks like a case of an ethical hacker turning rogue, then trying to appear ethical again. In a press release on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced […]
Cybersecurity professional accused of stealing $9 million in crypto by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch
Recently hired Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is pushing back at reports that Twitter traffic is tanking as a result of the July 5th launch of a new competitor, Instagram Threads, but the company does seem to be concerned about the potential threat posed by Meta’s rival, now topping 100 million users. On Monday, users reported […]
Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and that it will develop and maintain an RHEL-compatible distribution. SUSE says that it will invest $10 million into this project over the coming years. One major open source company forking another major open source company’s project is equivalent […]
Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch