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Wisecut raises funding from Tim Draper to expand its AI-driven video editing platform

Wisecut, an AI-powered automatic video editing platform, has announced the successful completion of an investment round from esteemed Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper, who made an impromptu pledge of $1 million to the company. Founders Ivo and Vicente Machado met with Tim Draper during breakfast and convinced him to pledge his support. Draper signed the investment commitment on a napkin, sealing…
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Neon raises $46 Million to advance serverless PostgreSQL database for the AI era

Neon, a serverless PostgreSQL database company, announced it has successfully raised $46 million in a series B round of funding. This brings the company’s total funding raised to $104 million. Neon launched its service in 2022. The new funding round was led by Menlo Ventures, and included the participation of Founders Fund, General Catalyst, GGV Capital, Khosla Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and…
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MIT CSAIL unveils PhotoGuard, an AI defense against unauthorized image manipulation

In recent years, large diffusion models such as DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion have gained recognition for their capacity to generate high-quality, photorealistic images and their ability to perform various image synthesis and editing tasks.  But concerns are arising about the potential misuse of user-friendly generative AI models, which can enable the creation of inappropriate or harmful digital…
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Looking for OpenAI skills? Upwork wants to help

Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT dramatically entered the AI scene in November 2022, there has been an explosion of interest and demand in AI skills — and particularly OpenAI skills. A new partnership announced today (July 31) between OpenAI and Upwork aims to help meet the demand. The OpenAI Experts on Upwork services is a way for OpenAI users to get access to skilled professionals to help with AI…
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