Audible, Amazon’s audiobook service, announced that it’s partnering with select publishers to convert print and e-books into AI-narrated audiobooks. This initiative aims to quickly expand its catalog as it competes with Apple, Spotify, and others in the rapidly growing audiobook market. Audible is leveraging Amazon’s AI capabilities...
HR tech startup Rippling has raised a $450 million Series G round at a $16.8 billion valuation. It is also conducting a $200 million tender offer to give current and former employees some liquidity. The equity raise marks a big jump in valuation from a year ago....
Given AI’s ability to churn out content quickly, it’s crucial for brands and their agency partners to ensure AI-generated content meets their quality standards. While using AI for writing can be efficient, it often requires human intervention to ensure it sounds authentic to a brand,...
With just a few words, AI models can be prompted to create a story, an image, or even a short film. But according to Weber Wong, these models are all “made by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative.” In other words, they’re not built...
A new Mac app called Framous has launched, giving you the ability to add device frames around screenshots to make them look more professional. The helpful new tool can aid app developers, graphic designers, and even journalists who need to add an iPhone or Mac frame — also...
MealMe, a unified API that embeds food and retail ordering into consumer apps and websites, announced that it has secured $8 million in Series A funding. The newly raised capital brings the total amount raised to $16 million. Since its launch in 2019, MealMe has undergone several changes....
Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries, and will add links to relevant web pages for some of those summaries as well. It’s also rolling out AI-organized search results pages in the U.S. The increasing...
Butterflies AI, the new social network where humans and AIs interact with each other, is launching a new Clones feature that turns you into an AI character. This latest addition builds on a feature launched to the public back in June that lets users create AI personas,...
Franki is a social discovery and video-based review app where users can interact with a community of foodies, discover local dining spots and create their own videos showing off their favorite restaurants. Franki recently underwent a brand refresh, which included the introduction of a new “Social...
Location data, for better or worse, continues to be a part of the bedrock of how apps are built. Now a startup developing AI market research based on that location data, Placer.ai, has quietly raised $75 million at an expanded valuation of nearly $1.5 billion. The...
