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April 2023

1 Apr

The Pope’s Coat Focuses Attention on AI Images

PARIS — Was the Balenciaga coat a wakeup call? After a photo-realistic image of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer coat from the brand caused an online frenzy earlier this week, Elon Musk, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, and Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn signed an open letter calling for corporations to curb their development of artificial intelligence. They were among the many tech leaders stating that the rapidly evolving systems pose “profound risks to society and humanity.” As unlikely because it could seem that the pope could be dressed by Demna, when the Midjourney-generated AI image went viral, most individuals couldn’t tell that it was fake. It was the primary time many became aware of AI’s capabilities, and left the general public to grapple...
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1 Apr

Arcaea Launches Ingredient Technology for Deodorant Brands – WWD

Together with her start-up Arcaea, MIT grad Jasmina Aganovic has been using biology to attempt to make the sweetness products of the long run more about individualism and consumers attending to know their bodies. Arcaea raised $78 million in Series A Funding from investors including Chanel, Givaudan and Olaplex through the COVID-19 global pandemic, and has just launched its first ingredient technology, ScentARC, which is geared toward deodorant brands. Designed to focus on specific underarm microbes, the patent-pending prebiotic technology shifts a user’s odor profile by selectively and naturally stopping production of odorous compounds without antimicrobials or masking smells. “Our mission is to make biology essentially the most desired technology in beauty,” Aganovic said. “In terms of the $25 billion deodorant...
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1 Apr

Entrepreneur Myriam Ullens, Founding father of Maison Ullens, Dead

PARIS — Myriam Ullens, the Belgian entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector who founded the Maison Ullens label, has died on the age of 70, the home confirmed on Thursday. Ullens was shot and killed in front of her home within the village of Ohain in Belgium on Wednesday, in line with local media reports. She was in a automobile together with her husband, billionaire industrialist Guy Ullens, who was reported injured but survived the attack. Her stepson Nicolas Ullens has been charged with murder after giving himself as much as police, saying the shooting was motivated by a financial dispute, the reports said. The general public prosecutor’s office for the French-speaking province of Walloon Brabant didn't immediately reply to a request for...
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