Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Generative AI video startup Runway ML partners with Getty Images on a new AI video model available in the coming months for use in Hollywood and advertising  —  Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the future. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising €450M in a round valuing the OpenAI rival around $2B; a16z is in talks to provide €200M in funding  —  – French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round  — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial stakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: 23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts  —  On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” now violates OpenAI’s terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led it to reveal training data  —  Join the newsletter to get the latest updates.  —  Success  —  Great!  Check your inbox and click the link.  —  Error Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: AssemblyAI, used by companies to build AI speech models, raised $50M led by Accel, taking its total funding to $115M, and says paying users grew 200% YoY to 4K  —  Companies are betting big on generative AI to gain a competitive edge.  But adoption challenges remain. Lees verder op Tech Meme