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Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI

The Amazon magnate has a new project centered around acquiring industrial firms and revamping them with AI technology.

Proton brings its encrypted cloud storage service to desktop

July 12, 2023

Proton, the Swiss company behind various privacy-focused online services, has brought its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage service to desktop for the first time. Following an extended beta testing phase, Proton Drive is available on Windows from today, with the Mac incarnation expected to hit beta testing “soon.” Founded in 2014, Proton was initially focused […]

Proton brings its encrypted cloud storage service to desktop by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Kakao ups its game in generative AI with Karlo 2.0, an AI image generator

July 12, 2023

South Korean tech giant Kakao wants a piece of the action in the generative AI race, and today it made a bid for it, with big updates to its AI image generator Karlo and its KoGPT large language model and a new fund to back AI image generating startups. Kakao’s AI division Kakao Brain‘s launch […]

Kakao ups its game in generative AI with Karlo 2.0, an AI image generator by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

Bedrock’s autonomous ocean-mapping ambitions score $25M as renewables rise

July 12, 2023

The demand for offshore wind has skyrocketed, like all renewable energy sources — but the necessary work of surveying, inspecting, and mapping coastal areas is stuck in the past. Bedrock’s autonomous underwater vehicles and digital platform play could redefine the sector, and the company has attracted $25.5 million in new funding to attempt it. Every […]

Bedrock’s autonomous ocean-mapping ambitions score $25M as renewables rise by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Quora’s Poe chatbot introduces better context window and document upload support

July 12, 2023

Quora’s AI-powered chatbot service Poe introduced a bunch of new tools on Tuesday ranging from a larger context window for better responses to support for URL retrieval, and document upload, along with continuing other users’ public conversations. The company said in an email to customers that with Anthropic launching Claude-2, Poe is making its 100k-token […]

Quora’s Poe chatbot introduces better context window and document upload support by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Voice cloning platform Resemble AI lands $8M

July 12, 2023

Resemble AI, a platform that uses generative AI to clone realistic-sounding voices, today announced that it raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures. The tranche, which brings the startup’s total raised to $12 million, will be put toward further developing Resemble’s […]

Voice cloning platform Resemble AI lands $8M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Testing automation platform Tricentis acquires Waldo

July 12, 2023

Tricentis, a test automation platform that has acquired quite a few testing services and startups over the years, is making another M&A move with the acquisition of Waldo, an automated testing tool for mobile development teams. I have covered Waldo several times over the past few years. The company has raised a seed round led […]

Testing automation platform Tricentis acquires Waldo by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch