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Deep Agency shows the perils of applying AI to the fashion industry

TechCrunch

But it raised questions as to why the brand didn’t recruit more models with the diverse characteristics it’s seeking, given the difficulty these models have had finding opportunities in the fashion industry historically. According to one survey , as of 2016, 78% of models in fashion adverts were white.) Enshrined in U.S.

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Psykhe secures seed funding to match consumer personalities to fashion products

TechCrunch

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. Well, Psykhe has assigned an overall psychological profile to the actual products themselves : over 1 million products from commerce partners, using machine learning (based on training data). It has now raised $1.7

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Fashinza, a B2B supply chain marketplace for fashion brands, raises $100M

TechCrunch

Bearing the brunt of the impact is the fashion industry, which employs millions of workers at retail stores, suppliers, and manufacturing factories around the world. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions.

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A hacker’s fall fashion line features faux license plates. Here’s why

The Parallax

Hacker and fashion designer Kate Rose thinks not. . Until now, most antisurveillance fashion has surrounded ostentatious pairs of glasses or face jewels meant to fool (or at least bring attention to the potential privacy ramifications of) facial-recognition technologies. LAS VEGAS—Are you too sexy for your license plate?

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Psykhe secures seed funding to match consumer personalities to fashion products

TechCrunch

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. Well, Psykhe has assigned an overall psychological profile to the actual products themselves : over 1 million products from commerce partners, using machine learning (based on training data). It has now raised $1.7

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Synthesia raises $50M to leverage synthetic avatars for corporate training and more

TechCrunch

These customers predominantly use the tool for training videos, it said, but also use Synthesia for monthly updates to the broader team or delivering information that would normally come via email. Interestingly, founder Victor Riparbelli said that user behavior didn’t necessarily match up to his earlier expectations.

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3 steps to get your data AI ready

CIO

To regularly train models needed for use cases specific to their business, CIOs need to establish pipelines of AI-ready data, incorporating new methods for collecting, cleansing, and cataloguing enterprise information. One of the foundational principles is cybersecurity, which is the primary concern for CIOs, according to Hardy.

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