Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion

December 16, 2022
Artists are now able to opt out of the next version of one of the world’s most popular text-to-image AI generators, Stable Diffusion, the company behind it announced.  Stability.AI will work with Spawning, an organization founded by artist couple Mat Dryhurst and Holly Hendon who have built a website called HaveIBeenTrained, that allows artists to…

Generative AI is changing everything. But what’s left when the hype is gone?

December 16, 2022
It was clear that OpenAI was on to something. In late 2021, a small team of researchers was playing around with an idea at the company’s San Francisco office. They’d built a new version of OpenAI’s text-to-image model, DALL-E, an AI that converts short written descriptions into pictures: a fox painted by Van Gogh, perhaps,…

Mind-altering substances are being overhyped as wonder drugs

December 16, 2022
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. For the past five years or so, barely a week has gone by without a study, comment, or press release about the potential benefits of psychedelic drugs landing in my inbox. Psychedelics…

With Bling, the fintech startup revolution spreads even to pocket money

December 16, 2022

Today, banks and fintech startups tend not to provide products dedicated to families, specifically, and this has appeared as something of a gap in the market. Meanwhile the general lack of financial education and financial literacy means families are missing out on securing financial prosperity for their families. GoHenry (which raised $121.2M), which bills itself as “smart banking […]

With Bling, the fintech startup revolution spreads even to pocket money by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Former Myntra chief’s fashion startup Virgio valued at $161 million in new funding

December 16, 2022

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. Prosus Ventures, Alpha Wave and Accel co-led Virgio’s Series A funding, valuing the one-year-old startup at $161 million […]

Former Myntra chief’s fashion startup Virgio valued at $161 million in new funding by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Crypto trader Amber raises $300M as it seeks protection for FTX-hit customers

December 16, 2022

Amber Group, a Sequoia- and Temasek-backed crypto trading firm, has closed a hefty $300 million Series C funding round as the collapse of FTX shakes the crypto world. The news, which the Singapore-based firm announced on Twitter Friday morning, follows on the heels of a Bloomberg report claiming that the crypto trader has ditched a […]

Crypto trader Amber raises $300M as it seeks protection for FTX-hit customers by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch