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Peripheral Raises $8.7M co-led by Inovia Capital and Deloitte Ventures, to Expand Spatial Intelligence Platform for Live Sports

TORONTO — Peripheral, the AI research lab bringing spatial intelligence to live sports media, today announced $8.7M in new seed funding co-led by Inovia Capital and Deloitte Ventures, with follow-on participation from existing backers Khosla Ventures and Entrepreneurs First, bringing total funding to $12.5M for the Toronto-based startup. “The demand for immersive, interactive sports experiences…

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John Gruber calls Claude's AI watermarking 'patently offensive'

Anthropic is adding a watermark to Claude's output. Tech blogger John Gruber says it could prioritize traceability over the quality of the writing.

  • Anthropic adds watermarks to LLM outputs for EU AI regulations.
  • John Gruber opposes watermarks, calls it a perversion of writing.
  • Gruber believes Claude's word selection should be based on precision, not detection.

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