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AiFi is teaming up with Microsoft to launch Smart Store Analytics, a data platform for retail stores using AiFi’s cashierless tech

Microsoft has acquired Fungible, a company developing data processing unit hardware, for an undisclosed sum.

Longtime readers know the drill, but for the newbies, WiR aims to pithily recap the past seven days of TechCrunch stories. TikTok bans abound: The U.S. might be getting all the attention for banning TikTok on government devices, but India did it first -- two and a half years ago now, in fact. In recent remarks, FCC commissioner Brendan Carr said that the U.S. should follow India’s lead more broadly to “weed out ... nefarious apps.”

MeetKai, a startup developing tools for building virtual worlds and conversational experiences, released new tools at CES 2023.

New York has passed a right-to-repair bill, granting consumers certain rights for consumer device repair. But it has significant exceptions.

QuickVid, a platform that ties together various AI systems to generate short-form videos, brings opportunities as well as risks.

Researchers at Stanford find that code-generating AI systems can cause developers to overlook security vulnerabilities in apps.

As generative AI like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 attract investor attention, startup entrepreneurs are looking to cash in with new business models built around them. One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual as…

The machine learning technique diffusion has led to incredible advances in image generation -- and domains beyond. But where’d it come from?

Gynger is a new startup that’s offering loans to companies for financing infrastructure and software spending.

Quora is testing an app called Poe that provides a way to talk to different AI chatbots, including ChatGPT.

User Interviews, a startup offering a platform for recruiting customer research survey participants, has raised $27.5 million in capital.

ImagenAI, a startup offering a service that uses AI to personalize photo editing styles and apply them at scale, has raised $30 million.

Artifact, a service that conducts interviews of family members for posterity, has raised $5 million in venture capital.

Protect AI, a startup developing tools to help developers identify exploits and vulnerabilities in their AI projects, has raised $13.5 million.

Dan Roy, a former software engineer at Delta, says he witnessed firsthand the challenges companies face when making the shift from an on-premises model to a software-as-a-service business. Accucast, where he served as CTO after leaving Delta, struggled with this as it pitched software and services…

OpenAI is working on a way to watermark text, according to a guest researcher working at the lab. But it’s limited in key ways.

MetalSoft, backed by the VC firm DNS Capital, is developing software that enables companies and cloud providers to abstract away hardware infrastructure management.

Expeto, a startup selling tools to manage private cellular networks, has raised $13 million from investors including Samsung Next.

Bosch announced that it’s winding down Azena, a startup it funded that was developing firmware and an app store for AI-powered cameras.