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Video generation and editing platform D-ID said Tuesday that it has acquired Berlin-based B2B video creation platform Simpleshow. The companies didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal. Simpleshow’s product will operate under D-ID’s umbrella, and eventually the two platforms will merge, D-ID chief executive Gil Perry told TechCrunch. Simpleshow, founded in 2008, has raised over $20 million in funding, according to Crunchbase data. The startup has offices in Berlin, Luxembourg, London, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. As part of the merger, the company will have consolidated offices in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and the United States. D-ID didn’t mention Simpleshow’s…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former U.S. Naval Academy midshipman has been charged in federal court with making a threat across state lines related to a lockdown and shooting at the military college in Maryland last week, the U.S. attorney’s office in Indiana said Tuesday.Jackson Fleming, 23, was arrested Friday on suspicion of sending an online threat through a social media application concerning the academy, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana said in a news release. Fleming, of Chesterton, Indiana, was charged with one count of transmitting a threat in interstate communication, the release said.Jonathan Bedi,…
At its Made on YouTube live event on Tuesday, the company unveiled new generative AI tools for Shorts creators. YouTube is bringing a custom version of Google’s text-to-video generative AI model, Veo 3, to Shorts, along with a new remixing tool, an “Edit with AI” feature, and more. The custom version of Veo 3, called Veo 3 Fast, generates outputs with lower latency at 480p, making it easy to create video clips, YouTube says. And now, users can do so with sound for the first time. This update is rolling out in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia,…
On Tuesday, YouTube introduced new tools for podcasters at its Made on YouTube live event in New York, including new ways to turn video podcasts into clips and YouTube Shorts, and a new feature that helps create videos for audio-only podcasters. Both will be powered by AI and will roll out in the months ahead. Using AI technology, video podcast creators in the U.S. will be able to create clips more easily with AI suggestions, the company says. This will be available in the “coming months,” while a feature that will transform those clips into YouTube Shorts will arrive early…
YouTube on Tuesday announced a suite of new features coming to YouTube Studio, the platform over 30 million creators use to manage their channels and track their analytics and revenue every month. At its Made on YouTube event, the company unveiled new and updated tools like an AI-powered chatbot for support, an inspiration tab, title A/B testing features, auto dubbing, likeness detection tools, and more. Many of these features build on tools previously announced or tested with smaller groups, but are now rolling out more broadly. Of these, the most interesting addition is the likeness detection feature, which was first…
Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. The customer relationship management giant announced the creation of a new business unit called Missionforce on Tuesday. It will be focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows in three main areas: personnel, logistics, and decision making, according to a company press release. Missionforce will be helmed by Kendall Collins, who joined Salesforce in 2023 and is currently the chief business officer and chief of staff to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. “With Missionforce, we’ll now bring the best of AI, cloud, and platform technology from the private sector to modernize critical areas…
Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. The customer relationship management giant announced the creation of a new business unit called Missionforce on Tuesday. It will be focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows in three main areas: personnel, logistics, and decision-making, according to a company press release. Missionforce will be helmed by Kendall Collins, the CEO of Government Cloud. Collins joined Salesforce in 2023 and was previously the chief business officer and chief of staff to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. “With Missionforce, we’ll now bring the best of AI, cloud, and platform technology from the private sector…
At Marietta City Schools in Georgia, a school district that serves approximately 8,500 students, vaping has grown into “the biggest issue” school administrators and teachers are facing, superintendent Grant Rivera told ABC News.School staff aren’t the only ones concerned. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Surgeon General called youth vaping an ongoing “epidemic” and released a Youth Vaping Resource Guide Monday to raise awareness about the issue.Fifty-six percent of U.S. parents also say that smoking and vaping are a big problem for children and teens in the country, according to an August poll from C.S.…
Venture investors are pouring money into Israeli cybersecurity startups. The latest is Vega, a company coming out of stealth mode that has landed $65 million in funding to take on some of the biggest incumbents in security.The funding round, led by Accel with participation from Cyberstarts, Redpoint, and CRV, values Vega at $400 million.The funding comes as Google is trying to close its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, another Israeli-founded security firm, in what could be one of the largest cybersecurity deals ever.Vega’s cofounder and CEO, Shay Sandler, knows the comparison is inevitable.”It’s quite humbling to say that it’s similar,”…
While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small. San Francisco-based MicroFactory built a general-purpose, tabletop manufacturing kit that’s about the size of my Siberian Husky’s dog crate. This compact factory includes two robotic arms and can be trained by human demonstration, as well as through AI. “General purpose robots are good, but it’s not necessary [to] be humanoid,” said Igor Kulakov, the co-founder and CEO of MicroFactory, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We decided to design robots from scratch that will still be general…