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China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral

May 10, 2023

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

AWS open sources fuzzing tool SnapChange and policy-based access control language Cedar

May 10, 2023

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

Last call to register for today’s filming of TechCrunch Live with Persona and Index Ventures

May 10, 2023

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 Download: a bold fusion claim, and a new augmented reality game

May 10, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup says its first fusion plant is five years away. Experts doubt it. The news: A startup called Helion, backed by Sam Altman, claims it’s on track to flip on the world’s…

This startup says its first fusion plant is five years away. Experts doubt it.

May 10, 2023
A startup backed by Sam Altman says it’s on track to flip on the world’s first fusion power plant in five years, dramatically shortening the timeline to a carbon-free energy source that’s eluded scientists for three-quarters of a century.  Helion Energy’s announcement that it’s on the verge of commercializing the process that powers the sun…

3 Tech Stocks Investors are Buying

May 10, 2023
Despite widespread recession concerns, the long-term prospects of the technology industry look attractive. Hence, fundamentally strong tech stocks Motorola (MSI), Ribbon (RBBN), and AudioCodes (AUDC) might be worth buying. Keep…

Petal raises $35M, spins off data unit ‘to bring credit scores into the 21st century’

May 10, 2023

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 fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders

May 10, 2023

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

With its planet-friendly protein, Farmless wants to dramatically outperform animal agriculture

May 10, 2023

Dutch startup Farmless has today announced that it has raised a €1.2 million pre-seed equity round at an undisclosed valuation to bring to our tables proteins created without the need for traditional farming operations. The climate crisis means that it has never been more pressing to develop alternative food sources in order to both protect […]

With its planet-friendly protein, Farmless wants to dramatically outperform animal agriculture by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch