This Week in AI: It’s shockingly easy to make a Kamala Harris deepfake
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It was shockingly easy to create a convincing Kamala Harris audio deepfake on Election Day. It cost me $5 and took less than two minutes, illustrating how cheap, ubiquitous generative AI
Read morePinstripe wants to redefine the way online sellers sell secondhand clothing
Pinstripe aims to reimagine the secondhand market by offering sellers the opportunity to have both a digital storefront and a physical retail presence. Launched in June, the platform offers an alternative approach compared with other marketplaces like Archive, Depop, Facebook Marketplace, and Poshmark. With Pinstripe, sellers take their clothes to
Read moreAI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs believe
By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Cursor.AI to ask technical questions and get debugging help could be just the beginning. AI coding may one day involve agents that can write the programs themselves
Read moreHow Trump’s election could affect the startup-friendly Inflation Reduction Act
While Trump's administration is unlikely to be supportive of certain climate tech startups, it will have a harder time ending the broadly popular law. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read more‘For You’ feeds fail on election night, offering outdated information, angering users
“For You” algorithms that promote the most interesting content across a social network, personalized to the individual user, offered a disjointed, outdated, and nearly unusable experience on election night in the U.S. as they highlighted hours-old posts that no longer reflected the current state of the race. Frustrations were particularly
Read moreNextivity to Strengthen Mobile Connectivity for SA Retailers
Today’s South African merchants rely significantly on mobile connectivity to support cashless transactions, administer QR code-based promotions, enable in-store kiosks, and provide easy access to consumer financing alternatives for large purchases such as electronics and furniture. Connectivity is critical for delivering OTPs (one-time passcodes) for secure customer verification and payment
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