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Daily Crunch: SBF says he’s ‘had a bad month,’ but is he really giving us the full story?

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Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital , the company told Jacquelyn. Three more from the TC+ team: CVC meets accelerators : Alex explores how Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators. Othmane Zrikem, chief data officer, A/O Proptech.

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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

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Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. However , more bad news came in August when the CEO announced that the company was laying off 150 people. Canal+ acquires Nollywood studio ROK from IROKOtv to grow African film.

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South Park creators’ deepfake video startup Deep Voodoo conjures $20M in new funding

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Parker and Stone had already begun assembling an AI artist team for a film they were developing, and when COVID intervened they focused on creating the tools for use later. The company got its start during the media shutdown of 2020, when the pandemic prevented most travel and on-set productions.

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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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OpenAI sets up new safety body in wake of staff departures

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OpenAI is setting up a new governance body to oversee the safety and security of its AI models, as it embarks on the development of a successor to GPT-4. The first task for the OpenAI Board’s new Safety and Security Committee will be to evaluate the processes and safeguards around how the company develops future models.

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Annotell raises $24M for tech that tests autonomous vehicle perception systems to improve how they work

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In the latest development, Annotell , a startup out of Sweden that makes software to assess the performance of autonomous systems’ perception capabilities, and how to improve that, is today announcing that it has raised $24 million to expand its business. We also take that seriously. That’s why we wanted to focus on the problem.”

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

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OpenAI proposes new moderation technique: OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4, its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. MIT and Harvard teamed up to try to advance our understanding of astrocytes, cells in the brain that perform some as-yet-unknown function.