OpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can’t use it… yet

As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it’s doing so responsibly. Today marks the preview debut of OpenAI’s Voice Engine, an expansion of the company’s existing text-to-speech API. Under development for about two years, Voice Engine allows users to upload any 15-second voice sample to […]
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X confirms plans for NSFW Communities

The changes appear to confirm the earlier tests of NSFW communities spotted by various researchers and reverse engineers.
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Plantee Innovations’ $1.4M seed deck

It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I built, and it determined there was a 97.7% chance that Plantee would raise money. This tool generally determines that only about 7.5% of all pitch […]
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Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at Work

Despite recent warnings that generative AI is overhyped, new data from Pew Research Center shows a rapid increase in the number of people who have used ChatGPT at work.

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Course Deal: Master the Essentials of Blockchain and Crypto for $19.97

Decentralized technology has massive future potential, and this one-hour course shows you how to harness blockchain in your own crypto projects.

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Is Garry Tan San Francisco’s ‘Twitter Menace’ or True Believer?

The deep pockets of the tech investor Garry Tan are valued by his allies, but his pugnacious online habits are creating plenty of enemies in the city he says he wants to save.

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Databricks’ GPT rival and who’s investing in “underdog” founders

Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday episode, in which we dig through the most critical stories and themes from the week. As the week comes to a close, we’re also shutting the book on the trial […]
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Odoo CRM Review (2024): Pricing, Alternatives, Pros & Cons

Odoo CRM is a free open-source platform with robust tools and advanced functionality with paid subscriptions. Learn more in our review.

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How a tiny 4-person startup, Supaglue, caught Stripe’s eye

Supaglue’s team will accelerate the work Stripe’s been working on real-time analytics and reporting across its platform.
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Tesla’s stock wraps up one of its worst quarters on record as global dominance wanes

Tesla shares plunged 29% in the first quarter, the worst period for the stock since the end of 2022 and the third-steepest quarterly drop on record.

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