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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...
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One in five YouTube Shorts shown to new users is AI-generated slop, study finds

An analysis by video tool company Kapwing reveals that low-quality AI-generated videos, commonly referred to as "AI slop," are becoming increasingly common on YouTube's trending lists. When testing ...
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OpenAI seeks new "Head of Preparedness" for AI risks like cyberattacks and mental health

OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness. The position focuses on safety risks posed by AI models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman points to the now well-documented effects of AI models on mental health as one ...
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China proposes rules to combat AI companion addiction

China's cyber authority has released draft regulations to strengthen oversight of AI services that mimic human interaction, requiring providers to warn users about excessive use and intervene when ...
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Anthropic's AI kiosk agent bought a PlayStation 5, ordered a live fish, and drove itself to bankruptcy

The Wall Street Journal ran its own test of Anthropic's AI kiosk, and the results were far messier. Within three weeks, the AI vendor "Claudius" racked up losses exceeding $1,000. The AI gave away ...
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Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal sure looks like an acquisition as 90 percent of staff moves over

In case there was any doubt that Nvidia's Groq deal is anything but a takeover in disguise: according to Axios, roughly 90 percent of the workforce—including CEO Jonathan Ross and President Sunny ...
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Some notes on what's new

Hey guys, you've probably noticed we've changed a thing or two about this website. If you don't like it yet, give it a chance, it might grow on you. Two things are important: First, a stronger focus ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: Zhipu AI challenges Western rivals with low-cost GLM-4.7 Zhipu AI has introduced GLM-4.7, a new model specialized in autonomous programming that uses "Preserved Thinking" to ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: OpenAI merges internal teams to fix audio AI accuracy gap ahead of ChatGPT hardware push OpenAI is building its planned ChatGPT hardware around conversation. To make that work ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API OpenAI has updated its Realtime API with three new model snapshots designed to improve transcription, speech synthesis, and ...
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Nvidia releases free LLMs that match GPT-4 in some benchmarks

Nvidia releases Nemotron-4 340B, a free pipeline that generates high-quality synthetic data for training and tuning large-scale language models (LLMs). It can be used for commercial applications. The ...
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Salesforce's CRM benchmark finds AI agents struggle in real-world business scenarios

Salesforce has launched CRMArena-Pro, a benchmark designed to evaluate AI agents in practical business situations, including multi-step conversations and data protection checks within CRM systems.