<p>Aimed at maintaining well-being, Sing is a VR app that you can sing out loud with when you&#8217;re home alone. </p>

<p>Aimed at maintaining well-being, Sing is a VR app that you can sing out loud with when you&#8217;re home alone. </p>

<p>AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that&#8217;s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of TwelveLabs, believes. Granted, Lee&#8217;s a little biased. TwelveLabs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be something to his assertion. Using TwelveLabs&#8217; models, users can search [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that&#8217;s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of TwelveLabs, believes. Granted, Lee&#8217;s a little biased. TwelveLabs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be something to his assertion. Using TwelveLabs&#8217; models, users can search [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans to release a dataset that includes in the region of 1 million public-domain books, spanning genres, languages, and authors including Dickens, Dante, and Shakespeare, which are no longer copyright-protected due to their age. The new [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans to release a dataset that includes in the region of 1 million public-domain books, spanning genres, languages, and authors including Dickens, Dante, and Shakespeare, which are no longer copyright-protected due to their age. The new [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A few years ago, Australia passed legislation requiring platform giants including Facebook-owner Meta and YouTube&#8217;s parent Google to negotiate with news publishers to pay for journalism reshares. The News Media Bargaining Code forced Big Tech to cut deals with local news outlets. However, Meta has since moved away from promoting news on its platforms globally [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A few years ago, Australia passed legislation requiring platform giants including Facebook-owner Meta and YouTube&#8217;s parent Google to negotiate with news publishers to pay for journalism reshares. The News Media Bargaining Code forced Big Tech to cut deals with local news outlets. However, Meta has since moved away from promoting news on its platforms globally [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of the data might&#8217;ve come from Twitch streams and walkthroughs of games. Sora launched on Monday, and I&#8217;ve been playing around with it for a bit (to the extent the capacity [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of the data might&#8217;ve come from Twitch streams and walkthroughs of games. Sora launched on Monday, and I&#8217;ve been playing around with it for a bit (to the extent the capacity [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alongside the release of a host of new AI features, Apple is also updating the Voice Memos app in iOS 18.2. On Wednesday, the iPhone maker announced that iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max users will be able to layer a vocal track on top of an existing instrumental recording in the Voice Memos app, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>YouTube announced on Tuesday that its auto-dubbing feature, which allows creators to generate translated audio tracks for their videos, is now rolling out to hundreds of thousands more channels.  YouTube first introduced its AI-powered auto-dubbing tool at Vidcon last year, which was only being tested with a limited group of creators. This tool could help [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The future of audiobooks and AI&#8217;s impact on the publishing industry were points of discussion for HarperCollins, whose CEO, Brian Murray, spoke at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference on Tuesday. During the event, the exec praised Spotify&#8217;s entry into the audiobooks market and detailed its future growth plans in the space. He also [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Attention, players. You are about to compete in a new challenge—but first, do you know how to speak Korean? In preparation for Season Two of “Squid Game,” one of Netflix’s most popular Korean thriller series, the streaming giant announced on Tuesday that it has teamed up with the language learning app Duolingo to help viewers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>French unicorn Mirakl is announcing its third acquisition in three years with the acquisition of Adspert, a German adtech startup focused on e-commerce advertising. Mirakl isn’t disclosing the terms of the acquisition, but the entire Adspert team of 30 employees will join Mirakl. As a reminder, Mirakl originally started as a software solution to add [&hellip;]</p>

<p>French unicorn Mirakl is announcing its third acquisition in three years with the acquisition of Adspert, a German adtech startup focused on e-commerce advertising. Mirakl isn’t disclosing the terms of the acquisition, but the entire Adspert team of 30 employees will join Mirakl. As a reminder, Mirakl originally started as a software solution to add [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify has officially discontinued Car Thing, its in-car streaming device, with all units now disabled, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.&nbsp; Earlier today, an X user noticed that their Car Thing is indeed no longer functioning, displaying a message that it&#8217;s &#8220;no longer operational,&#8221; along with a reminder of the refund terms valid until January 14, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, quietly added a new image generator to its&nbsp;Grok&nbsp;assistant this past Saturday. Then, it removed it. Now, it&#8217;s bringing it back — and officially announcing it. The image generator, called Aurora, was developed by Musk&#8217;s AI company, xAI, and trained on billions of examples from the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI launched its video-generating tool, Sora, on Monday. But the company&#8217;s opting not to release a key feature for most users pending further testing. The feature in question generates a video using an uploaded photo or footage of a real person as a reference. OpenAI says that it&#8217;ll give a &#8220;subset&#8221; of Sora users access [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Subscribers to OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT Pro and Plus plans will get access to Sora, OpenAI&#8217;s video generator, starting today — but only if they live in certain countries. During a livestream Monday afternoon, OpenAI revealed key information about Sora, including technical details. The version launching today, called Sora Turbo, can generate clips between 5 seconds and [&hellip;]</p>