<p>The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers. The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, after setting November 4 as its deadline months earlier. The workers represented provide software support and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instead of scouring the internet for a summary of a TV show, which often risks unintentionally revealing major plot points, Prime Video’s latest feature aims to save viewers from encountering any spoilers. Amazon announced on Monday the launch of “X-Ray Recaps,” a generative AI-powered feature that creates concise summaries of entire seasons, single episodes, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Automation skeptics ask: Why humanoids? There are many benefits and drawbacks of the robotics form factor, but Boston Dynamics’ latest electric Atlas video showcases one of the most underdiscussed factors: costumes. &#8220;Why build a humanoid robot?&#8221; the company rhetorically posits. &#8220;Because the world is designed for humans, including all the best Halloween costumes.&#8221; A day [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Automation skeptics ask: Why humanoids? There are many benefits and drawbacks of the robotics form factor, but Boston Dynamics’ latest electric Atlas video showcases one of the most underdiscussed factors: costumes. &#8220;Why build a humanoid robot?&#8221; the company rhetorically posits. &#8220;Because the world is designed for humans, including all the best Halloween costumes.&#8221; A day [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 on Wednesday to talk about the challenges facing people who want to disrupt something &#8212; both inside and outside of the tech world. &#8220;One of the biggest challenges that you will likely face when you try to disrupt something [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 on Wednesday to talk about the challenges facing people who want to disrupt something &#8212; both inside and outside of the tech world. &#8220;One of the biggest challenges that you will likely face when you try to disrupt something [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Wonder Dynamics made a strong opening play in AI-enhanced visual effects, providing tools animators and filmmakers actually find useful — and earning the startup a prompt acquisition by Autodesk. Their latest tool further automates the animation process, letting you put in practically any video and get a fully editable 3D scene, characters and all. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new startup setting out to combat the scourge of deepfakes and spoofed evidence in the age of AI is showing off its wares on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 this week. ForceField is building a set of &#8220;patent-pending&#8221; APIs dubbed MARQ, the first of which is designed to authenticate content. For [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new startup setting out to combat the scourge of deepfakes and spoofed evidence in the age of AI is showing off its wares on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 this week. ForceField is building a set of &#8220;patent-pending&#8221; APIs dubbed MARQ, the first of which is designed to authenticate content. For [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Oversubscribed Ventures co-founder Sara Foster (above right) made a confession onstage on Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even have ChatGPT on my phone,&#8221; she said. It&#8217;s an unexpected comment from an investor, given that ChatGPT is arguably the most influential product to launch this decade. But what makes the Foster sisters different from [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Oversubscribed Ventures co-founder Sara Foster (above right) made a confession onstage on Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even have ChatGPT on my phone,&#8221; she said. It&#8217;s an unexpected comment from an investor, given that ChatGPT is arguably the most influential product to launch this decade. But what makes the Foster sisters different from [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you&#8217;ve ever struggled to explain a scene from your favorite Netflix series or movie to a friend because you couldn&#8217;t find the clip online, the streamer just came up with a solution.&nbsp; Netflix launched on Monday a new clipping feature called “Moments” on its iOS app, letting you quickly save your favorite scenes. Now, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you&#8217;ve ever struggled to explain a scene from your favorite Netflix series or movie to a friend because you couldn&#8217;t find the clip online, the streamer just came up with a solution.&nbsp; Netflix launched on Monday a new clipping feature called “Moments” on its iOS app, letting you quickly save your favorite scenes. Now, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Update: The model&#8217;s been revealed as Recraft&#8217;s Recraft v3. The original story follows: A mysterious new image generation model is beating models from Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, and OpenAI on the crowdsourced Artificial Analysis benchmark. The model, which goes by the name &#8220;red_panda,&#8221; is around 40 Elo points ahead of the next-best-ranking model, Black Forest [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The popularity of an Instagram video can affect its actual video quality: According to Adam Mosseri (the Meta executive who leads Instagram and Threads), videos that are more popular get shown in higher quality, while less popular videos get shown in lower quality. In a video (via The Verge), Mosseri said Instagram tries to show [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the decades following its 1958 release, Brenda Lee’s rockabilly-tinged “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has attained status as an all-time holiday classic. Sixty-six years later, it’s getting a Spanish language rework courtesy of “responsible” AI. Universal on Friday announced the release of “Noche Buena y Navidad,” which utilized SoundLabs AI’s MicDrop technology to reconstruct [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities — including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Kylie Jenner — were suspended on Monday, according to the owner of many such accounts, Florida college student, Jack Sweeney. Meta tells TechCrunch these accounts violated its privacy policy, citing a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In an interesting variation of the usual &#8220;stop stealing our stuff&#8221; lawsuit already deployed dozens of times against AI companies, today brings a more nuanced form of alleged theft. Alcon Entertainment, a production company behind &#8220;Blade Runner 2049,&#8221; is suing Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros. Digital for what they claim is a willful circumvention [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In an interesting variation of the usual &#8220;stop stealing our stuff&#8221; lawsuit already deployed dozens of times against AI companies, today brings a more nuanced form of alleged theft. Alcon Entertainment, a production company behind &#8220;Blade Runner 2049,&#8221; is suing Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros. Digital for what they claim is a willful circumvention [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With the current unemployment crisis in Hollywood, many TV and film crew members are concerned about finding their next job. This is particularly the case for freelancers, who often face unstable work and irregular pay. ShoBizzy is the latest professional networking app for the entertainment industry that aims to address this challenge. And, as more [&hellip;]</p>