TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

See: Stability AI, which this afternoon announced Stable Video Diffusion, an AI model that generates videos by animating existing images. AI startups that aren’t OpenAI are plugging away this week, it’d seem — sticking to their product roadmaps even as coverage of the chaos at OpenAI dominates the airwaves.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Decentralized social network Bluesky is rolling out a new in-app video and music player for links, along with a new “hide post” feature. The new video and music player works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds. Unlike on X, where autoplay on videos […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Google has announced that its Bard AI chatbot can now answer questions about YouTube videos. Although Bard already had the ability to analyze YouTube videos with the launch of the YouTube Extension back in September, the chatbot can now give you specific answers about queries related to the content of a video.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Elon Musk has announced that X, formerly Twitter, will be bringing video to Spaces, the social network’s live audio conversation feature. ” “From a feature standpoint, we are working on adding video to Spaces,” Musk said. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

SAG-AFTRA members voted overwhelmingly on Monday to authorize a strike against the video game industry. The union — which includes video game performers like voice, motion capture and stunt actors — has been negotiating a contract for over a year with a collection of studios, like Epic, EA, Activision and more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

CapCut, the ByteDance-owned video editing app that’s the company’s second to hit $100 million in consumer spending after TikTok, is now expanding into business tools.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

YouTube announced today a new comment moderation setting, “Pause,” letting creators and moderators prevent viewers from adding new comments yet keep existing comments on videos.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Lux, the startup and makers of the popular pro photography app Halide and others, is venturing into video. The team today announced its plans to debut a new app, Kino, arriving in roughly two months’ time, that will allow iPhone users to work with video in a more professional capacity. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. Deep Render isn’t the only venture applying AI to the problem of video compression, nor is its AI a silver bullet necessarily.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Researchers with the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that videos tagged with hashtags promoting the use […]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Ubiquity, the networking and video surveillance camera maker, has fixed a bug that users say mistakenly allowed them access to the accounts and private live video streams of other customers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Elon Musk announced Wednesday that an early version of video and audio calling is now available on X, formerly known as Twitter. The move is another step towards Musk’s goal of turning X into an “everything app” that can handle everything from online payments to news to food delivery.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Google launched today a new feature for Classroom that allows teachers to turn any YouTube video into an interactive assignment by inserting questions for their students to answer throughout the viewing experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024 is going to be a huge year for the cross-section of generative AI/large foundational models and robotics. There’s a lot of excitement swirling around the potential for various applications, ranging from learning to product design. Google’s DeepMind Robotics researchers are one of a number of teams exploring the space’s potential.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

YouTube is updating its guidelines to allow new types of content to monetize adult content, including videos that display nudity while breastfeeding and non-sexually graphic dancing. With this new update, creators can now earn more ad revenue on breastfeeding content where a child is present in the video, even if the areola is visible.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you? Dior sells an advent calendar for $4,200. It comes with white glove delivery. And there’s more where that came from. Especially on TikTok.

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Ruby on Rails

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We’re pleased to announce that thanks to Rails World sponsor Happy Scribe, all Rails World 2024 videos are now available with Japanese , Brazilian Portuguese , and Spanish subtitles. We agreed to make Rails World 2024 a trial for localizing Rails World videos. Please let us know what you think in the comments under the videos!

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

With a growing library of long-form video content, DPG Media recognizes the importance of efficiently managing and enhancing video metadata such as actor information, genre, summary of episodes, the mood of the video, and more. DPG Media’s VTM GO platform alone offers over 500 days of non-stop content.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Content moderation continues to be a contentious topic in the world of online media. New regulations and public concern are likely to keep it as a priority for many years to come. But weaponised AI and other tech advances are making it ever harder to address. A startup out of Cambridge, England, called Unitary AI […]

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In late 2021, the TikTok parent’s plans for video games came into the spotlight after it became one of the firm’s six core business units, posing a new threat to incumbents such as Tencent and NetEase and rising star MiHoYo. ByteDance’s gaming ambition has been an expensive, short-lived pursuit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a photo of themselves online: with Animate Anyone, bad actors can puppeteer people better than ever.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company will join other large publishers, including NBCU, Condé Nast, DotDash Meredith, BuzzFeed and more, which offer brand-safe videos for marketers to place their ads around. TikTok has landed Disney as its latest big-name publishing partner for its premium ad product, Pulse Premiere, announced earlier this year. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators’ questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts. TikTok counts views as soon as a video starts to play, it’s said). TikTok counts views as soon as a video starts to play, it’s said).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A video called “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI” hit a million views […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In just 22 hours, the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has racked up 85 million views, breaking a MrBeast video’s record for most YouTube views in 24 hours.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The most recent mulch video came to me in the middle of the night, when I was hours into scrolling through a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. The video was an edit of a tiny dog surrounded by a frame of glittering hearts, with an AI-generated voice narrating, “Today, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. I am haunted by mulch posts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

TikTok’s short-form video app is hitting a new milestone. The app, which reached 1 billion monthly active users in 2021, has now become the first non-game mobile app to generate $10 billion in consumer spending across the Apple App Store and Google Play combined, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The company is already pushing into new demographics — Roblox announced that it would foster mature content for 17+ users earlier this year — and a new animated video calling product launching later this […]

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Google launched its hand gesture detection feature on Google Meet that recognizes when your physical hand is raised and triggers the hand raise icon to notify participants in the video call that you have a question. The AI-powered feature was initially announced back in March.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It’s slim, light, offers hand tracking and passthrough and livestreams video when the moment calls for it. This is a review-in-progress. Somewhere between the Ray-Ban Meta and Meta Quest 3 sits an ideal mixed-reality headset. It’s designed to be worn inconspicuously outdoors, until the time comes for content capture.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

But the company will be the first to support Matter Casting, the video- and audio-beaming feature of the Matter smart home standard, on its smart displays and smart TVs, Amazon announced this morning at CES 2024. Once Matter Casting comes to Amazon’s Prime Video app for Android […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The two contestants in MrBeast’s newest video, Suzie Taylor […] © 2023 TechCrunch. A woman in a blue tracksuit is on the floor of a bright asylum-like room, stretching in a pigeon yoga pose when she turns to the stranger she plans to live with for 100 days. What are you going to do with this money?” All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

“I have been a big fan of Josh’s TikTok videos for some time and his ability to poke at the tech industry with timely, relevant videos really showcased his creativity and ability to communicate via short-form video.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Summarization is one of the common use cases of different AI models, and we now have multiple tools that shrink articles, PDFs, videos and transcripts into easily digestible pieces of information. The video highlight feature is an evolution of that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In an unsolicited email pitch to a TechCrunch reporter, a representative for Yepic AI shared two “deepfaked” videos of the reporter, who had not given […] .” But the company did exactly what it claimed it never would.

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