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Laser-focused on creativity, Glowforge adds AI image generation

February 7, 2023

We’ve all had a lot of fun with creating game assets, odd selfies, custom stock images and dubious nudes, and it was only a question of time before one of the big hardware-makers jumped on the AI image generation band wagon. Today, laser cutting and printing company Glowforge releases its Magic Canvas feature, which lets […]

Laser-focused on creativity, Glowforge adds AI image generation by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Pinterest reaches 450 million monthly users, will focus on making videos ‘shoppable’

February 7, 2023

Pinterest said during its latest earnings call that the service now has 450 million monthly active users globally, a 4% jump year-on-year. The company noted that while the user base in the U.S. and Canada stayed at 95 million, growth in other regions contributed to this milestone. The social media company, which debuted a short […]

Pinterest reaches 450 million monthly users, will focus on making videos ‘shoppable’ by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Why detecting AI-generated text is so difficult (and what to do about it)

February 7, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, OpenAI unveiled a tool that can detect text produced by its AI system ChatGPT. But if you’re a teacher who fears the coming deluge of ChatGPT-generated essays, don’t get the party…

PhonePe taps cross-border UPI payments in revenue push

February 7, 2023

Indians traveling to many foreign markets including the UAE and Singapore may soon be able to use the popular UPI payments to make purchases when they land there. Bengaluru-headquartered fintech giant PhonePe said on Tuesday that it’s extending support for UPI international payments in the UAE, Singapore, Mauritius, Nepal and Bhutan. “Users will be able […]

PhonePe taps cross-border UPI payments in revenue push by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Apple execs on M2 chips, winning gamers and when to buy a Mac

February 7, 2023

Apple’s M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2021. Apple had been designing its own silicon since the A4 appeared in the iPhone 4 just over a decade earlier. The appearance of Apple’s in-house efforts in the Mac was really just a question of when, not if. When the M1 […]

Apple execs on M2 chips, winning gamers and when to buy a Mac by Matthew Panzarino originally published on TechCrunch

Modular eel robots combine soft and rigid components

February 6, 2023

Here’s an interesting comment from MIT’s Alfonso Parra Rubio, “Treating soft versus hard robotics is a false dichotomy.” For, I suppose, obvious reasons, thinking around technology tends to be a bit…binary. Certainly we’ve traditionally regarded soft robots as being something that exists in direct opposition to their more traditional counterparts. But the organic beings that […]

Modular eel robots combine soft and rigid components by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video

February 6, 2023
Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year’s breakout text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion, has released an AI model, called Gen-1, that can transform existing videos into new ones by applying any style specified by a text prompt or reference image. In a demo reel posted on its website, Runway shows how its software can…

Binance acquires majority stake in Korean crypto exchange GOPAX

February 6, 2023

Binance Holdings plans to return to South Korea after pulling out of the market in 2020. The world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform by volume said it had acquired a majority stake in South Korea-based crypto exchange GOPAX.  In November, GOPAX suspended customer withdrawals from its DeFi service, GoFi, after suffering effects from the bankrupt lender Genesis […]

Binance acquires majority stake in Korean crypto exchange GOPAX by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch