Client Services Manager, Melain Rodriguez for Viagen stated that the company began cloning 20 years ago but was only working with big businesses for cloning livestock, however, demands from pet clients took priority over the livestock, and cloning for dogs and cats started in 2015.
The FCC has proposed a $6 million fine for the scammer who used voice-cloning tech to impersonate President Biden in a series of illegal robocalls during a New Hampshire primary election. It's more about robocalls than AI, but the agency is clearly positioning this as a warning to other would-be high-tech scammers. This was, of course, fake — a voice clone of President Biden using tech that has become widely available over the last couple years.
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Spotify will raise prices on US users across all three of its paid tiers.
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Cloudera, the once high flying Hadoop startup, raised $1 billion and went public in 2018 before being acquired by private equity for $5.3 billion 2021. Today, the company announced that it is acquiring Verta, an AI startup that helps customers manage machine learning models, including large language models used in generative AI. Cloudera, which launched a SaaS data lakehouse the year after it was acquired, needed some AI chops to stay relevant in today’s market.
The Giants acquired Waller in a March 2023 trade.
What's the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke — and how can you prevent them? Experts share how to stay safe during extreme heat.
The Audi RS6 Avant and A6 Allroad have 30 cubic-feet of cargo space, but its roll-up cargo net allows it to hold way more than that volume would suggest.
'If you own an iPhone, the integration is perfect,' says one fan. 'No more Windows stuff for me.'
US stocks are eyeing an upbeat start to June as hopes for rate cuts revive and the meme stock mania roars back
f you've ever wanted an AI assistant to do something useful like make sure your PC is optimized for whatever game you're playing, NVIDIA may have the answer.
The global spend management sector is experiencing a tailwind of sorts. Indeed, the space is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10.3% by 2030, per Grand View Research, and adoption in other regions like the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is expected to pick up as companies increasingly adopt expense management tools to get a clearer picture of where their money is going. Saudi Arabia-based Simplified Financial Solutions Company (SiFi), one such spend management platform in the MENA region, has now raised $10 million in a seed funding round to double down on its growth plans in its home market.
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As pressure from Chinese competitors intensifies and the EV market stalls, major U.S. and European auto manufacturers are racing to cut the cost of producing electric vehicles so they can get to the price tags and profit margins of ICE cars. Now, a company spun out from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), has raised $27 million in a Series B funding round to apply AI to solve that exact pain point. The company says it uses deep learning in a 3D environment, and combines data analysis with machine learning to speed up development times by up to 75% and product simulation by as much as 10 times.
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Monzo has announced its 2024 financial results, revealing its first full-year pre-tax profit. The company also confirmed that it's in the early stages of expanding into the broader European market via a new base in Ireland.
Carbon removal technologies are becoming increasingly important for companies, particularly for tech giants locked in a fierce battle to become the leader in artificial intelligence.
Not everything is looking great within the record-setting Nasdaq.
Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple's Austin, Texas manufacturing facilities. In recent years, the capital city has transformed into a hot bed for tech innovation, largely owing to a massive talent pool generated by nearby University of Texas at Austin. Just ahead of the pandemic, Apple confirmed that it would also be producing that model’s successor in the city.
The Oilers are headed to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in nearly two decades.