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Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos. While the company has already leveraged AI for its tools like the distraction-removing Magic Eraser and corrective Photo Unblur features in Photos, it’s now turning to AI for more complex edits with the introduction of Magic Editor. The new […]

Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Mandopop singer Stefanie Sun has gone viral on Bilibili, China’s largest user-generated video streaming site. But the sudden revival of interest in Sun, who hasn’t released an album since 2017, comes not from the artist having another moment of genius. The songs that have attracted millions of views on Bilibili feature Sun’s voice cloned by […]

China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Salesforce is betting that generative AI will be at the center of its enterprise strategy, and it can fuel LLMs as a trusted data source.

Salesforce is betting that its own content can bring more trust to generative AI by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new open source projects today, a move designed in part to address concerns around software supply chain security. The Amazon cloud computing subsidiary revealed that it’s open sourcing a new fuzzing tool called SnapChange and a recently-launched authorization policy language and SDK called Cedar. Supply chain With the […]

AWS open sources fuzzing tool SnapChange and policy-based access control language Cedar by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Identity management used to mean making sure you had your drivers license when you left the house, but these days it’s not so easy: identity fundamentally underpins how we engage with the digital world, and identity services can take on many forms (and abuses). Now things are getting even more interesting: the big advances we’re […]

Last call to register for today’s filming of TechCrunch Live with Persona and Index Ventures by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

The United States credit system as it exists today has been around for decades and many would argue it’s long been in need of an overhaul. In the meantime, a number of startups have emerged in recent years to offer consumers more options when obtaining credit. Petal is one such company. The New York-based startup, […]

Petal raises $35M, spins off data unit ‘to bring credit scores into the 21st century’ by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Clearview AI, the US startup that’s attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the Internet and used people’s data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law enforcement and others, has been hit with another fine in France over non-cooperation with the data protection regulator. […]

Clearview fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch