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As ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images going viral sparks a debate, AI may not devalue human-created art and may even elevate it by fueling a creation economy — There are fundamental questions likely without good answers; let's focus on how this needs to work for everyone| Financial Times: |
Marketing executives say big brands are allocating small amounts of their ad budget to X, seeking to avoid being perceived as boycotting Elon Musk's platform — Marketers want to avoid being seen as boycotting billionaire's social media platform — Big brands are allocating small amounts … | Bloomberg: |
A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity — inZOI, a new life-simulation video game, gets more realistic and more multicultural — Most people have fantasized about inhabiting someone else's life.
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Cambridge, UK-based Camgraphic, which is developing graphene-based photonics chips for AI, HPC, autonomous cars, and other applications, raised a €25M Series A — The money will be used to develop the startup's R&D operations in Pisa and establish a pilot manufacturing line in Milan
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| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30 “domestically controllable” products at the Semicon China show, as China pushes for chip self-reliance — The equipment start-up kept a low profile until this week, when it unveiled about 30 new products at the Semicon China show
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How Klarna's Walmart deal ahead of its IPO put long-simmering tensions between Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Affirm CEO Max Levchin on public display — Even by Sebastian Siemiatkowski's standards, it's been a wild month. — The chief executive officer of buy now …
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| Manish Singh / India Dispatch: |
Bernstein: AI could erode India's $350B services export sector as AI replaces entry-level engineers at “higher precision and speed” at a fraction of the cost — AI subscriptions replace Indian engineers at “higher precision and speed” — For decades, India's economic promise …
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A look at the new, open-source Model Context Protocol for connecting LLMs to data sources and why its success depends on overcoming middleware challenges — There's a long history of “middleware” in our industry. Everyone wants it. There's always a hot one, but it rarely makes to the finish line and often disappoints.| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Waterloo, Ontario-based logistics software company Descartes Systems Group acquires 3Gtms, an Ohio-based transportation software vendor, for $115M in cash — Waterloo, Ont.-based multinational and logistics software company Descartes Systems Group has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based 3Gtms …
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| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
PE firm Clearlake agrees to acquire and take private Dun & Bradstreet, one of Wall Street's oldest data and analytics providers, for $7.7B including debt — The private equity firm will pay $9.15 per share in cash for Jacksonville, Florida-based Dun & Bradstreet, according to a statement Monday …
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| Taylor Telford / Washington Post: |
How AI tools are causing problems and sowing distrust in both job hunting and hiring; a Polish cybersecurity startup says it almost hired a deepfake candidate — The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools and overreliance on software such as ChatGPT is making the job market increasingly surreal.| Emma Beavins / Fierce Healthcare: |
NYC-based Navina, which has developed an AI copilot for clinicians, raised a $55M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $100M — Artificial Intelligence KLAS Research Goldman Sachs funding round — Clinician AI assistant company Navina has raised …
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