Tag: finance
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Colorado’s top election official targets AI-generated ‘deepfakes’ in elections
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is targeting AI-generated “disruptors” — such as “deepfakes” — as her office prepares for this year’s elections. Griswold unveiled her legislative priorities at a time of social anxiety over “deepfakes.” This week, pornographic “deepfake” images generated by artificial intelligence and sexualizing people without their consent hit the singer Taylor Swift,…
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Colorado’s top election official targets AI-generated ‘deepfakes’ in elections
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is targeting AI-generated “disruptors” – such as “deepfakes” – as her office prepares for this year’s elections. Griswold unveiled her legislative priorities at a time of social anxiety over “deepfakes.” This week, pornographic “deepfake” images generated by artificial intelligence and sexualizing people without their consent hit the singer Taylor Swift,…
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Colorado Springs sales tax revenues see big boost in December, but remain flat for the year
Colorado Springs sales tax receipts last month saw their biggest percentage increase in more than a year, buoyed by healthy consumer and business spending on motor vehicles and building materials, among other key retail categories. A city government Finance Department report released Wednesday showed the Springs collected nearly $19.2 million in December from the sales…
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Venture capital funding surges to first-half records in Colorado, U.S.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Venture funding surged to record levels for the first half of the year in Colorado Springs, statewide and nationwide, according to a report from Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association. Nearly all such funding in Colorado Springs came in the first quarter, when software…
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Venture capital funding surges to first-half records in Colorado, U.S.
Venture funding surged to record levels for the first half of the year in Colorado Springs, statewide and nationwide, according to a report from Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association. Nearly all such funding in Colorado Springs came in the first quarter, when software developer Quantum Metric landed the city’s largest-ever venture financing, totaling…
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New Ent Credit Union headquarters in Colorado Springs a reflection of explosive growth
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ent Credit Union is growing so fast, the $8.1 billion financial institution will reach the capacity of its new Colorado Springs headquarters by the end of next year and could start another building within two years. Ent started moving groups of 200 employees into the…
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New Ent Credit Union headquarters in Colorado Springs a reflection of explosive growth
Ent Credit Union is growing so fast, the $8.1 billion financial institution will reach the capacity of its new Colorado Springs headquarters by the end of next year and could start another building within two years. Ent started moving groups of 200 employees into the new building June 28 and will complete the process Aug.…
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BUSINESS | UCCS professor Tom Duening on program to lure sports, health ventures to Colorado Springs
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs finance professor Tom Duening has launched a program designed to help startups in sports and health grow from adolescence to adulthood. (Video by Wayne Heilman)
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BUSINESS | Quantum Metric
Quantum Metric has added chief financial and revenue officers to its management team and an advisory board member in the wake of landing $200 million in venture capital as the Colorado Springs-based software company gets ready to go public. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Colorado Springs ‘unicorn’ software firm lands record $200 million in venture capital
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs software developer Quantum Metric has landed $200 million in venture capital in a deal that values the company at more than $1 billion, making it the area’s first technology “unicorn.” The investment from a group led by Insight Partners is the largest ever…