Meta reportedly closes deal to buy AI voice replicator PlayAI
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Meta reportedly closes deal to buy AI voice replicator PlayAI

Meta has finalized the agreement to purchase Play AI, a startup based in California providing users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to Bloomberg. The news organization says the "entire PlayAI team" is joining Meta next week, based on the internal memo it has seen. After joining the company, the team will be working under Johan Schalkwyk, who used to oversee speech AI research for Google and who was also a recent hire from another voice AI startup. PlayAI's tool can clone a user's voice and can generate new human-like voices, which can be used on websites, apps and phones. Meta reportedly noted in its memo that the PlayAI team's work is a "great match" for its own work and roadmap across various products, including Meta AI, its AI Characters and its wearables. The company...
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Chee Soon Juan closes second outlet of cafe Orange & Teal ‘due to rising costs’, Lifestyle News
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Chee Soon Juan closes second outlet of cafe Orange & Teal ‘due to rising costs’, Lifestyle News

Lifestyle PUBLISHED ONOctober 12, 2024 4:45 AMByDrima ChakrabortyOnly two years since its opening, the cafe owned by Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan and his wife Dr Huang Chih Mei, Orange & Teal, is shuttering its second location in Marina Square.It was announced on social media Friday (Oct 11) that the outlet would be closed effective from that day "due to rising costs"."However, our Rochester Mall outlet will continue to operate as usual," it added.https://www.instagram.com/p/DA9MLnioqJi/?hl=enDr Chee and Dr Huang opened the first cafe in June 2021, with the former sharing on social media: "It’s been a long-term dream of ours to have a place where Singaporeans come together to not just have a great meal or have that heartwarming cuppa, but a place where we get together with our loved ones and friends...
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Helicap Closes Largest Credit Facility Yet with Xendit’s XenCapital: USD$50 Million to Empower Southeast Asian Businesses, Business News
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Helicap Closes Largest Credit Facility Yet with Xendit’s XenCapital: USD$50 Million to Empower Southeast Asian Businesses, Business News

Business new tamfitronics /PRNewswire/ -- Helicap, a leading fintech platform provider specialising in emerging markets, is proud to announce the successful facilitation of a credit facility with XenCapital, the lending arm of Xendit, a fintech unicorn with operations across Southeast Asia and which has raised US$515million in venture capital funding. Digital lending has been the most active Southeast Asian fintech subsector in 2023, seeing growth in 2024 and projected to grow another 33% in 2025 .XenCapital has demonstrated its merchants in the lending space, having disbursed over USD$700 million in loans to businesses across Southeast Asia since its inception in 2021. Its success underscores its robust...
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Participant Closes Down After 20 Years
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Participant Closes Down After 20 Years

Top Stories Tamfitronics After twenty years within the movie and TV manufacturing business, manufacturing firm Participant is closing its doorways. Company founder Jeff Skoll broke the info to around 100 group on Tuesday. Nearly all of Participant’s staff will be dismissed and no contemporary insist material construction or manufacturing will be pursued. A preserving firm overseeing the Participant library of the 135 films and 5 TV sequence it has made will live.The firm co-produced or co-financed more than a couple of vital motion photos including finest image Oscar winners “Highlight” and “Inexperienced E book”. They broke by in 2005 with George Clooney’s “Horny Evening, and Horny Fair appropriate fortune,” Niki...
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