Now that the AI clickworker startup Invisible Technologies is wildly successful, its founder is buying out his VCs – and is borrowing against the company to do so. By Iain MartinForbes Staff In early 2020, Francis Pedraza was staring squarely at failure. For more than four years, the Cornell grad had been trying to combine […]
Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its Moxie robot with it. The $800 robots, aimed at providing emotional support for kids ages 5 to 10, would soon be bricked, the company said, because they can’t perform their core features without the cloud. Following customer backlash, Embodied […]
In addition to the robot being bricked, Embodied noted that warranties, repair services, the corresponding parent app and guides, and support staff will no longer be accessible. “Unable to Offer Refunds” Embodied said it is “unable” to offer most Moxie owners refunds due to its “financial situation and impending dissolution.” The potential exception is for […]
Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed its closure on a failed “critical funding round.” On its websiteit explained: We had secured a lead investor who was prepared to close the round. However, at the last minute, they withdrew, […]
A new Parisian startup is selling merch — a word “you can’t even translate into French” — for some old-school establishments.
This story is part of CNBC Make It’s The Moment series, where highly successful people reveal the critical moment that changed the trajectory of their lives and careers, discussing what drove them to make the leap into the unknown. Jake Loosararian’s nine-figure business might’ve never existed if he’d listened to the people he trusts most. […]
Pictured here is an AI-generated clip from Vidu’s website. The tool can create videos from text or image prompts. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Beijing-based Shengshu Technology on Wednesday said that its artificial intelligence-powered text-to-video tool Vidu will now be able to generate videos by combining images. Vidu already allows users worldwide to create […]
By analysing citations and authors’ publication records, Argos identifies ‘high risk’ papers that warrant further investigation.Credit: bernie_photo/Getty Which scientific publishers and journals are worst affected by fraudulent or dubious research papers — and which have done least to clean up their portfolio? A technology start-up founded to help publishers spot potentially problematic papers says that […]
Loti Dashboard Loti AI In an era where artificial intelligence can clone anyone’s face and voice with frightening accuracy, a new battlefront has emerged in the fight for digital identity protection. Leading this charge is Loti AIa startup that’s tackling the growing crisis of unauthorised AI-generated content and deepfakes head-on. Luke Arrigoni, CEO at Loti […]
Real-time deepfakes are no longer limited to billionaires, public figures, or those who have extensive online presences. Mittal’s research at NYU, with professors Chinmay Hegde and Nasir Memon, proposes a potential challenge-based approach to blocking AI-bots from video calls, where participants would have to pass a kind of video CAPTCHA test before joining. As Reality […]
