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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

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Audiosocket Photo) TikTok videos posted by Charli D’Amelio , Miss Universe , and the Philadelphia Eagles are quite different from one another, but they share something in common thanks to a Seattle startup. On TikTok, the video-sharing social giant, Audiosocket’s artists are trending, amassing more than 300 million views this year.

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New rules streamline procedures for licensing commercial space imaging systems

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The Commerce Department has released a new set of rules aimed at making the procedure for licensing Earth-imaging satellite systems more in tune with what’s technically possible and commercially available on the global market. An artist’s conception shows BlackSky’s Global satellites in orbit. BlackSky Illustration).

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V-JEPA: Meta’s answer to complex video understanding

Dataconomy

Meta’s latest innovation, the V-JEPA model, is here to change how computers comprehend videos. Meta’s new V-JEPA model, or Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, is a cutting-edge technology developed to understand videos in a way that’s similar to how humans do. What is Meta’s new V-JEPA model?

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Seattle’s Soundry AI creates text-to-sample generator to help prompt enhanced music creation

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Soundry AI Photo) The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI , a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is part of the latest cohort at the startup accelerator Y Combinator. Partnerships: Soundry partners with artists and licenses their songs and samples to help train its AI.

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Latest round of Unity layoffs impacts 50 Seattle-area employees

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Unity Technologies, based in San Francisco, is best known for its eponymous game engine Unity, which has been used to build hundreds of video games over the course of the last decade. In September, Unity announced it would alter the terms by which it licensed its engine to game developers.

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Right of Publicity Claims Will Rise as States Address AI Deepfakes and Voice Cloning

SecureWorld News

Importantly artificial intelligence services, internet platforms, and other technology companies should remain vigilant of this active and proposed regulation, as they could be subject to liability based on content available through their services or platform. The ELVIS Act grants standing to a licensee (i.e.,

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Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes

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We leverage our retail infrastructure to offer a wide selection of consumable and durable goods that includes media products available in both a physical and digital format, such as books, videos, games, music, and software. These product sales include digital products sold on a transactional basis. ” [Rose 13.5% billion.] .”

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