AI-powered video generation startup HeyGen has raised $60 million in Series A funding. Its special power is generating videos from natural language prompts, without those pesky cameras, casts and crews. The funding will support the product roadmap, but also security, AI ethics and trust.
Microsoft turned out to be next in line after Apple to feel the wrath of European regulators. A preliminary finding holds that Microsoft has breached anti-trust regulations by tying its collaborative platform Teams to its business suites, Office and Microsoft 365. As with Apple, Microsoft faces a potential fine up to 10% of the company’s annual worldwide turnover.
Treasure Data has introduced Live Connect as an enterprise zero copy option for data activation in the data warehouse. Designed to work with all major data warehouses, Live Connect creates no persistent copy of data and does not rely on ETL. Batch copy still exists as an option too.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.