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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

December 27, 2022

As generative AI like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 attract investor attention, startup entrepreneurs are looking to cash in with new business models built around them. One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual assets, including textures for 3D models, using […]

Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Special episode: Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect (Found)

December 27, 2022

The Equity crew is kicking off your week with a special episode from our sister podcast, Found, the stories behind the startups. Co-hosts Darrell Etherington and Becca Szkutak spoke with Alice Albrecht from Re:collect, a software tool that augments creativity by helping people focus, recall, and connect their ideas. The conversation covered a lot of ground from how to […]

Special episode: Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect (Found) by Theresa Loconsolo originally published on TechCrunch

An EV-plosion awaits in 2023, and it’ll be packed with tech

December 27, 2022

2022 was the year that electric vehicles entered the mainstream. Not everyone has one, but buying an EV no longer makes you an outlier. Driven by policy initiatives from governments and billions of dollars in investment from automakers, we can safely say the EV industry has begun to take shape. Over the next year, that […]

An EV-plosion awaits in 2023, and it’ll be packed with tech by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Our best illustrations of 2022

December 27, 2022
From the MIT Technology Review art team, here are some of our very favorite illustrations of the year:

What to expect from AI in 2023

December 26, 2022

As a rather commercially successful author once wrote, “the night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope.” It’s fitting imagery for AI, which like all tech has its upsides and downsides. Art-generating models like Stable Diffusion, for instance, have led to incredible outpourings of creativity, powering apps […]

What to expect from AI in 2023 by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate

December 25, 2022
A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering. That refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large…