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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

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The brainchild of Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs, the startup’s AI-powered service generates virtual characters primarily for games, but also in broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities. .

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Stealth recruiting, virtual sales kickoffs, Google Cloud’s Q4

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Hybrid events won’t give teams a chance to bond over karaoke, but with a tight agenda and a compelling theme, you can create a virtual or hybrid SKO that people will actually want to attend. With a $22B run rate, does it matter if Google Cloud is still losing money? This week, Google Cloud reported $5.5

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PubNub raises $65M to build and run data streams for messaging, presence and other real-time aspects of ‘virtual spaces’

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PubNub tells me that its messaging, presence and other data-based APIs today are used across some 600 million devices in more than 70 countries, with some 900,000 developer projects generating some 21 petabytes of data on a monthly basis. “From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces.

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Insurance IT leaders herald new era for digital customer experience

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In the last few years, the [insurance industry] has taken us in some new directions, being more remote and virtual and changing behaviors than we would have seen in 2019 or before,” Harris-Ferrante says. Aflac’s Virtual Enrollment Experience fully utilized the cloud and SaaS solutions in its construction, Gilbert says. “We

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Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

TechCrunch

” Anthropic describes the frontier model as a “next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching,” making reference to an AI training technique it developed called “constitutional AI.” Google is also among Anthropic’s investors, having pledged $300 million in Anthropic for a 10% stake in the startup.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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Radar trends to watch: October 2021

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We’ve been talking about virtual and augmented reality for years; when will it enter the mainstream? Will Stories be enough to make it cool, or will it have the same fate as Google Glass? That’s an interesting partial solution to cloud security, though it only comes into play after an attack has succeeded. Is this a crisis?

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