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If your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding a new avatar generation tool based on Stable Diffusion, the photo editing app Lensa AI went viral over the last few days, with users sharing their uncanny AI-crafted avatars (and the horrible misfires) in stories and posts. Lensa’s […]

Lensa AI, the viral app making ‘magic avatars,’ raises red flags for artists by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

A good way to be wrong is to predict the future. A good way to be incredibly and embarrassingly wrong is to predict the future in a medium that is public and everlasting.

3 views: Predicting 2023’s key startup themes by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch

We’re over the moon to announce the three early-stage startups that will take the stage and go head-to-head in the pitch competition at TC Sessions: Space — next Tuesday, December 6, in Los Angeles. There’s still time to join this mission. Buy your pass right now to watch these early-stage space aces square off in […]

Meet the startups competing at TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

A company may have a good contact center, but ideally they are able to help customers before they need to make a call. Operative Intelligence helps contact centers figure out what customers want more quickly, improving automated inquiries and cutting down on wait times. The Melbourne and Los Angeles-based startup announced today it has raised […]

Operative Intelligence helps contact centers figure out what customers really need by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Someone once told me that successful companies each succeed in their own way, but companies all fail the same way: They run out of cash.

Which way is up? The end of free money and the importance of keeping cash on hand by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Happy TC Sessions: Space 2022 Eve! Tomorrow’s the big day in L.A. for everyone involved with or interested in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and forging humanity’s future in space. There’s still time to get on board this mission, but the countdown clock is ticking. Ticket to the flight deck: Buy your pass and […]

Check out what’s happening tomorrow at TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch