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Has GetReal cracked the code on AI deepfakes? $18M and an impressive client list says yes Mar 31, 2025

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The proliferation of scarily realistic deepfakes is one of the more pernicious byproducts of the rise of AI, and falling victim to scams based on these deepfakes is already costing companies millions of dollars — not to mention the implications these could have on national security.

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OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns Mar 29, 2025

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It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away”.

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Outreach founder Manny Medina has a new startup that helps AI agents get paid Mar 28, 2025

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Medina's new startup, called Paid, helps agentic startups profitably charge for their bots.

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Plural’s platform allows enterprises to manage their Kubernetes clusters in one place Mar 27, 2025

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When Sam Weaver was vice president of product management at Unqork, he realized that the company needed a better way to manage its sprawling network of Kubernetes clusters — which are groups of computing nodes. When Unqork couldn’t find anything off the shelf, it assembled a 15-person team to build a Kubernetes management product.

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Pruna AI open sources its AI model optimization framework Mar 27, 2025

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Pruna AI, a European startup that has been working on compression algorithms for AI models, is making its optimization framework open source on Thursday. Pruna AI has been creating a framework that applies several efficiency methods, such as caching, pruning, quantization and distillation, to a given AI model.

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AI creation platform Arcade expands from jewelry to home goods Mar 26, 2025

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Arcade, a generative AI marketplace for designing jewelry, is expanding its offerings to include home goods, starting with rugs. The company on Monday also introduced a new feature called “Match My Room,” which allows users to upload a photo of their room so that their design complements the existing colors and style

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Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage Mar 26, 2025

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After hitting record lows at the start of the pandemic, mortgage rates began to climb in 2022 and haven’t come down significantly since. With 30-year mortgage rates hovering at over 6.5% today (they were as low as 2.49% in 2020!), buying a home is simply not that attainable for many people.

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Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management Mar 25, 2025

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Aletiq has raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates). The French startup is announcing the founding round today. Aletiq has been developing product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturing industrial companies working in aerospace, automotive, electronics, luxury and more.

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1X will test humanoid robots in ‘a few hundred’ homes in 2025 Mar 25, 2025

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Norwegian robotics startup 1X plans to start early tests of its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in “a few hundred to a few thousand” homes by the end of 2025, according to the company’s CEO, Bernt Børnich. “Neo Gamma is going into homes this year.”

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Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech Mar 24, 2025

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Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall sees promise in bringing his autonomous vehicle startup’s tech to market. That is, if Wayve sticks to its strategy of ensuring its automated driving software is cheap to run, hardware agnostic, and can be applied to advanced driver assistance systems, robotaxis, and even robotics.

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