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Google partners with Adobe to bring art generation to Bard

May 10, 2023

Bard, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is getting new generative AI capabilities courtesy of Adobe. Adobe announced today that Firefly, its recently introduced collection of AI models for generating media content, is coming to Bard alongside Adobe’s free graphic design tool, Adobe Express. Firefly — currently in public beta — will become the “premier generative […]

Google partners with Adobe to bring art generation to Bard by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI

May 10, 2023

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

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…