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 A powerful new video-generating AI model became widely available today 鈥?but there   a catch: The model appears to be censoring topics deemed too politically sensitive by the government in its country of origin, China.The model, Kling, developed by Beijing-based company Kuaishou, launched in waitl air jordan isted access earlier in the year for users with a Chinese phone number. Today, it rolled out for anyone willing to provide their email. After signing up, users can enter prompts to have the model generate five-second videos of what they ;ve described.Kling works pretty much as advertised. Its 720p videos, which take a minute or two to generate jordan4 , don ;t deviate too far from the prompts. And Kling appears to simulate physics, like the rustling of leaves and flowing water, about as well as video-generating models like AI startup Runway   Gen-3 and OpenAIair max femme  8217  Sora.But Kling outright won ;t generate clips about certain subjects. Prompts like  Democracy in China,& Pwjf Omnitouch Multitouch Input on Any Surface
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 This wasn t how I d expected to spend a Friday afternoon in the city, but here I was, sitting in the of adidas og fices of enterprise language translation services startup Unbabel, opposite founder and CEO Vasco Pedro, testing what appeared to be a brain-to-computer interface. And it was pretty astounding.The story begins four years ago.Unbabel s core mission   allowing enterprises to understand and be understood by their customers in dozens of languages   long ago led the company to think outside af1  the proverbial  box,  to develop several projects in-house. It wanted to explore other ways to communicate. Now, as a startup with $90 million in VC funding, annual revenues of around $50 million and having survived the pandemic, Unbabel is doing well enough to explore these projects. We had the idea of looking at brain-to-communication interfaces,  Pedro tells me.  We started doing a bunch of experiments, like a 20% project. Unbabel s innovation team, led by Pa nike air force ulo Dimas, VP of P Qhiz What happens when public SaaS companies don t meet heightened investor expectations
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 As Ben Horowitz tells reporter Alex Konrad,  I kind of regret it, because I feel like I hurt people s feelings who were perfectly good businesses . . . I went too far. The story also suggests that Andreessen Horowitz   whose agency-like model has been widely replicated by other big venture firms   is re-shaping venture capital a second time. It   doing this, says Forbes, by turning itself into a registered investment advisor.But the firm isn ;t alone is morphing into something very different than it once was, including an RIA. SoftBank is already one. Foundry Group is one. General  crocs clogs Catalys reebok c85 club t appears to be in the process of registering as one, too.  It recently withdrew its status as a so-called exempt reporting advisor.  Other big firms with a rang salomon mujer e of un-VC-like products are similarly eyeing the same move.They don ;t have much choice. While VCs have traditionally been able to dabble in new areas through their limited partner agreements with their own investor

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 Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.聽The week capped off with Tesla AI Day, a recruitment/roadshow that ended up lasting three hours. Yeah.What did we learn and see  Tesla has made progress on its Tesla bot, also called Optimus. It is no longer a human dressed in a robot suit, but an actual robot. Will it make Boston Dynamics or Serve Robotics shake in their boots  Probably not. But it was a robot that moved, albeit briefly.A few takeaways:Th airmaxplus e event was somehow simultaneously ve nike force 1 ry dense and lacking basic details that would help establish baselines and progress.Tesla made a point to put employees from the AI and hardware teams on stage  this is unusual for the typical Elon-centric reveals and events .There was an incredible emphasis on how the bot was equipped with components and tech used in Tesla vehicles, notably airmax  Autopilot. There is an efficiency that comes from shared parts and tec Oqya Relationship community app Keepler wants to guide you through your dating journey
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 Even as established tech giants are having a rough go-ahead with the headset market, Beijing-based Pico Interactive is looking to give it a go with a focus on standalone VR headset hardware that can keep up with the innovations of larger firms.Pico has closed a $24.7 million Series A聽led by GF Qianhe聽and GF Xinde Investment, with participation from salomons  Jufeng聽S&T Venture Investment and others, the company said in an announcement. This is the startup   first bout o mizuno waveprophecy f outside funding since its founding in 2015.VR hardware had plenty of entrants around Pico   founding, but as Oculus competitors were forced to slash prices to keep up with aggressive pricing, margins disappeared, leaving relatively scant space for startups. Pico has made its bet on moving past PC or console-based systems and focusing strongly  salomon xt on self-contained standalone headset options.Coinciding with the funding announcement, Pico also offered details on a new standalone headset being released in China. Called

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