Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
A look at AI companies gathering data from real people to create “digital twins”, to use as fashion models, focus group members, or clinical trial participants — AI that can predict how specific humans will look, act and feel could do the jobs of fashion models, focus group members and clinical trial participants
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects’ locations and other details (Tim Stelloh/NBC News)
Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects’ locations and other details — Cybercheck’s founder has said the software tops 90% accuracy. Defense lawyers have said he lied under oath about his expertise …
Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements “written and verified by real people” (Agence France-Presse)
Agence France-Presse:
Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements “written and verified by real people” — Victoria Shi is modelled on Rosalie Nombre, a singer and former contestant on Ukraine’s version of the reality show The Bachelor
A look at news publishers’ conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at news publishers’ conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates — – The new suits add heft to the Times’ claims. … Several other large news publishers, including the Financial Times …
Synergy Research: cloud revenue grew 21% YoY in Q1 2024 to $76B; Altimeter: AWS now has 31% market share followed by Azure with 25% and Google with 11% (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Synergy Research: cloud revenue grew 21% YoY in Q1 2024 to $76B; Altimeter: AWS now has 31% market share followed by Azure with 25% and Google with 11% — Last year’s doldrums are in the rearview thanks to AI — If you were concerned about slowing cloud infrastructure growth for a time in 2023 …
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are a simple, reliable, and smartly priced AI gadget, whereas Humane’s AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 are more akin to science projects (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are a simple, reliable, and smartly priced AI gadget, whereas Humane’s AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 are more akin to science projects — There’s a new WANTED poster in town… PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1: The smartphone ACCUSED OF: Stealing your attention, sanity and well-being REWARD …
Sources: Swedish PE firm EQT acquires a “significant majority” stake in WSO2, valuing the enterprise API and identity management company at “more than” $600M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Sources: Swedish PE firm EQT acquires a “significant majority” stake in WSO2, valuing the enterprise API and identity management company at “more than” $600M — WSO2, a company that provides API management and identity and access management (IAM) services for enterprises …
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim launches an Android app for its eponymous AI chatbot as the startup prepares to launch its developer offerings on May 4 (Vikas SN/Moneycontrol)
Vikas SN / Moneycontrol:
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim launches an Android app for its eponymous AI chatbot as the startup prepares to launch its developer offerings on May 4 — Krutrim’s mobile app launch comes as the country’s first AI unicorn gears up to launch its developer offerings, which includes cloud infrastructure and mapping solutions.
How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out’s The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI’s Sora, a first from a major record label (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out’s The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI’s Sora, a first from a major record label — “The Hardest Part,” a new song from indie pop artist Washed Out, is all about love lost, among the most human of themes.
Filing: CRM software maker Freshworks acquires Connecticut-based Device42, which helps companies manage their IT infrastructure and had raised $38.5M, for $230M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Filing: CRM software maker Freshworks acquires Connecticut-based Device42, which helps companies manage their IT infrastructure and had raised $38.5M, for $230M — Freshworks, the publicly listed SaaS firm, is acquiring U.S.-based startup Device42 for $230 million, the company disclosed in an SEC filing.
