Topic: ai avatars
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AI Avatars: The Top Trends Shaping the Future
AI avatars enable scalable and personalized content creation, reducing production time from hours to minutes for short videos and making daily publishing feasible for teams of any size. They support high-quality multilingual lip-syncing and voiceovers, allowing businesses to seamlessly localize c...
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Attend Zoom Meetings as Your AI Avatar
Zoom is launching photorealistic AI avatars in December, allowing users to create a digital double for professional appearance in meetings without using a live camera. The platform includes security measures like live camera authentication and clear indicators to verify users and ensure transpare...
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Google Vids Adds AI Avatars and Launches Consumer Version
Google Vids has introduced AI avatars and automated transcript trimming, along with a free consumer version, to compete in the AI-assisted video creation market. The platform offers a template library and stock media for casual users, while business users gain access to synthetic avatar technolog...
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Akool Live Camera: Real-Time Video Call Translation & Virtual Avatars
Akool Live Camera is an AI-powered platform offering real-time translation, hyper-realistic avatars, and face swapping for seamless digital interactions in live video meetings. The technology features sub-100-millisecond latency, cross-platform compatibility, and privacy-centric local data pr...
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Kaltura Buys eSelf, Snap AI Founder's Startup, for $27M
Kaltura has acquired eSelf.ai for approximately $27 million to integrate advanced conversational avatar technology, enhancing real-time user interaction with photorealistic digital humans across over thirty languages. The acquisition brings eSelf's expertise in speech-to-video generation and low-...
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Zoom's New AI Update: Smart Notes, Avatars & More
Zoom has introduced AI-driven enhancements including smarter meeting tools, cross-platform functionality, and lifelike digital avatars to improve professional collaboration and workflow management. The AI Companion now works across platforms like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, offering consiste...
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Captions Rebrands as Mirage, Pivots to AI Video Research
The video platform Captions has rebranded as Mirage, shifting its focus to advanced AI research for short-form video and introducing a tool called Mirage Studio for brands to create AI-generated ads without traditional production resources. Mirage Studio allows businesses to produce videos using ...
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I Tried the Free Ad-Supported Telly TV for 3 Months
Telly offers a free 55-inch television with a secondary screen that displays constant ads, news, and widgets, which cannot be turned off and requires users to accept ongoing promotions in exchange for the device. The TV collects personal data, including viewing habits and room occupancy, raising ...
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Your Digital Afterlife: What Happens to Your Online Accounts?
Planning for the management of digital assets after death or incapacity is crucial but often overlooked, facing challenges like technological hurdles, inconsistent laws, and systemic gaps that leave legacies vulnerable. The OpenID Foundation is addressing this through initiatives like the Death a...
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Your Face in AI Ads: DirecTV's 2026 Screensaver Plan
DirecTV will launch AI-generated screensaver ads on its Gemini streaming devices in early 2026, replacing default wallpapers after ten minutes of inactivity to create new revenue streams. The ads, powered by Glance, will allow users to create personalized AI avatars and customize them with virtua...
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Runway's First World Model Unveiled with Native Audio in Latest Video AI
Runway has launched GWM-1, a foundational "world model" that simulates real-world physics to enable reasoning and planning, advancing beyond simple video generation for applications like robotics. The core GWM-1 technology is being deployed through three specialized applications: GWM-Worlds for i...
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AI-Generated Artist's Record Deal Sparks Copyright Chaos
A multi-million dollar deal for the AI-generated artist Xania Monet highlights a legal gray area, as current copyright law protects only human-authored elements like lyrics, leaving AI-created music and vocals potentially in the public domain. The deal raises questions about its value, as the lac...
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Elon Musk's xAI used employee biometric data to train AI girlfriend
Elon Musk's xAI required employees to provide personal biometric data, including facial and vocal characteristics, to develop its anime-styled female chatbot Ani, as part of the secret "Project Skippy" initiative. The collected biometric information was intended to make the AI's conversations mor...
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6Sense Founder Raises $30M for AI Sales Startup 1Mind
1Mind, co-founded by Amanda Kahlow, has raised $30 million in Series A funding, bringing its total to $40 million, and focuses on deploying its AI sales agent, Mindy, for inbound sales from initial contact to deal closure. Mindy utilizes deterministic AI to ensure accurate information delivery, i...
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Animate Your Photos for Free with Google Photos' Veo 3
Google Photos now offers a free feature in the U.S. that uses Veo 3 to animate still images into four-second videos, with options for subtle movements or random effects. Veo 3 provides improved resolution and visual quality over its predecessor, enhancing Google's integration of AI video tools fo...
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