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Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the web

TechCrunch

Catch&Release founder and CEO Analisa Goodin told me that she wants to help brands break free from the limitations of stock photography — and that her startup has raised $14 million in Series A funding to achieve that goal. “No one has defined the commercial licensing layer for the web,” she said.

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Deep Agency shows the perils of applying AI to the fashion industry

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Tons of things, like automating content for social media influencers, models for marketeers’ ads and ecommerce product photography.” Others accused Postma of pursing a “deeply unethical” business model, scraping other peoples’ photography and likenesses and selling it for profit. Enshrined in U.S.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: No-code MVP strategy, hiring under scrutiny, A/B growth testing

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The potential of AI tools like ChatGPT creates a similar dilemma — should companies license large language models without modifications, or customize them and pay much higher usage rates? Most of us could probably bake one at home, but speed and convenience are powerful incentives at dinnertime. Pitch Deck Teardown: Orange’s $2.5M

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. Our new subscription business [is] growing,” Yaccarino said. The lawsuit alleged that the social network “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical ‘compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law.”

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Implications of Monoclouds for as-a-Service Startups - Why Differentiation Matters More than Ever

Tomasz Tunguz

Any business where we see margin is our opportunity. All of these businesses have some pretty powerful advantages they are using to compete. First, the companies behind them have bolstered these businesses with billions of dollars from their balance sheets. Anything that’s open source with traction, we will host.

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