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Axiom Space raises $130 million for its commercial space station ambitions

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Axiom is the service provider for the mission, brokering the deal for the private spacefarers and setting up training and mission profile. not astronauts selected, trained and employed by their respective national government) make its way to the station. Tom Cruise reportedly talking to SpaceX about shooting a movie in space.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

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Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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D-ID launches ‘Speaking Portrait,’ a way to turn photos into custom, photo-realistic videos

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D-ID’s Speaking Portraits may look like the notorious “deepfakes” that have made headlines over the past couple of years, but the underlying tech is actually quite different, and there’s no training required for basic functionality. Big-name clients like Warner Bros.,

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China’s work automation startup Laiye raises $160M, acquires France’s Mindsay

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An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was sold to the Chinese search engine giant.

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Yext co-founder unveils Dynascore, which dynamically synchronizes music and video

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“They train their models on Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but the stuff that comes out of it is trash […] The critical breakthrough we realized is that computers cannot write music, the same way that AI can’t write a film and can’t write a book. But AI can reconstruct music in a way that the human ear responds to.”

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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

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The brainchild of Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs, the startup’s AI-powered service generates virtual characters primarily for games, but also in broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities. Image Credits: Inworld AI.

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A startup is charging $1.99 for strings of text to feed to DALL-E 2

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In general, the results for a prompt like “Film still of a woman drinking coffee, walking to work, telephoto” will be much more consistent than “A woman walking.” It’s unknown how big the market will be, but I can see it being a key tech skill, if not the future of programming.”

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