OpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can’t use it… yet

March 29, 2024

As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it’s doing so responsibly. Today marks the preview debut of OpenAI’s Voice Engine, an expansion of the company’s existing text-to-speech API. Under development for about two years, Voice Engine allows users to upload any 15-second voice sample to […]

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The AI world needs more data transparency and web3 startup Space and Time says it can help

March 29, 2024

As AI proliferates and things on the internet are easier to manipulate, there’s a need more than ever to make sure data and brands are verifiable, said Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of Space and Time, on TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction podcast. “Not to get too cryptographically religious here, but we saw that during the FTX […]

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X confirms plans for NSFW Communities

March 29, 2024

The changes appear to confirm the earlier tests of NSFW communities spotted by various researchers and reverse engineers.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Plantee Innovations’ $1.4M seed deck

March 29, 2024

It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I built, and it determined there was a 97.7% chance that Plantee would raise money. This tool generally determines that only about 7.5% of all pitch […]

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