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European founders call for single EU startup body to boost tech sector

Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder of Stripe, speaking at 2022’s Italian Tech Week in Turin, Italy. Giuliano Berti | Bloomberg | Getty Images Founders of some of Europe’s largest technology unicorns on Monday backed an open letter calling for a “tech renaissance” fueled by the creation of a single pan-European entity to promote startups and innovation in the bloc. The list of …

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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on AI, gamification, and the power of freemium

Today, I’m talking with Luis von Ahn, the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, the popular app that teaches languages. It’s an interesting time to be in the language business: if there’s anything the current state of AI tech can do, it’s babble away in different languages with people who aren’t quite fluent in what they’re hearing. That means there are …

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Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro

Adobe is making the jump into generative AI video. The company’s Firefly Video Model, which has been teased since earlier this year, is launching today across a handful of new tools, including some right inside Premiere Pro that will allow creatives to extend footage and generate video from still images and text prompts. The first tool — Generative Extend — …

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