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Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

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One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars. It has so far raised around $9 million in funding from investors including IDG, Sequoia Capital China and, most recently, Baidu Ventures.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . A new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found that it’s going to be a close election. The latest in the battle over Prop 22 and AB 5.

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Science37: Using Technology To Enable Remote, Clinical Trials, with Belinda Tan

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The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. Belinda Tan: Most of our trials are Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

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It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. It seems to me that we obsess too much with product features, sales pipelines, competitive pressures, fund raising and such.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

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Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. Finally, what are you doing with that new funding? What does it take to take a social gaming firm to the next level? We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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In-House Business Innovation Requires a New Mantra

Startup Professionals Musings

He asserts that the problem is lack of inspiration, and he supports this with twenty years of real case studies from his own experience. This mantra is complemented by a framework known as the five M’s, which are five key principles for unleashing creativity in any environment: Mood.