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Heya, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the noteworthy happenings in tech over the past several days (and change). Famed startup accelerator Y Combinator had its Demo Days, and the venture desk took it all in with an appropriately skeptical eye. You can read their day one and day two coverage, […]

SAG-AFTRA members have voted to authorise a new strike against the video game industry, with an overwhelming 98.32 percent in favour. The union claims that 34,687 members cast ballots, representing 24.49 percent of eligible voters. Bear in mind that this authorisation does not guarantee the strike will happen, but that the union members are serious

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Email: Galaxy Digital’s venture arm, which has long invested its own money, is raising a $100M fund with outside capital, focused on early-stage crypto startups  —  Galaxy’s prolific venture wing plans to start accepting – and investing – outside capital.  —  Galaxy Digital’s venture team … Source link

Spotify has begun testing an AI-powered tool that will allow podcast creators to translate their episodes into different languages. The audio streaming platform has embraced the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to allow podcast hosts to automatically provide versions of their shows in additional languages — while preserving their voice across all translated versions.

When Hubspot founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah conceived of their inbound marketing startup in 2004, they were still graduate students at MIT, and inbound marketing was not well understood. They were able to develop that idea into a successful company and eventually went public in 2014. Today, the Boston-based company has a market cap

X, formerly known as Twitter, has been promised to get an audio and video calls feature. Last month, Elon Musk, who took over the social media platform in October last year, had tweeted that a voice and video calling feature was coming to X, confirming that calls would work on iOS, Android, Mac & PC

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: Report: Google changed its privacy policy in June 2022 to more broadly cover its use of publicly available content, including Google Docs, to train AI models  —  According to The New York Times, the companies may have violated YouTube creators’ copyrights.  —  OpenAI and Google trained … Source link

ChatGPT has been updated with support for voice conversations and image recognition, OpenAI announced on Monday. The company’s AI-powered chatbot will soon be able to understand images captured or shared by users and provide details or related information across platforms where the chatbot is available. It will also be capable of back-and-forth conversation using OpenAI’s

Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained on creators’ chats to mimic their dirty talk and upselling  —  Hey there, it’s tech reporter Alexandra Sternlicht.  —  OnlyFans creators’ careers are underwritten by sexting. Source link

Rick and Morty season 7 trailer is finally out, promising more multiverse-hopping adventures for our dynamic duo of the titular alcoholic scientist and his timid grandson. More importantly, it also serves as the debut for their new voices, whose soundalike performers haven’t been disclosed yet. Both characters were previously voiced by series co-creator Justin Roiland,