11.ai unveils a voice-driven AI assistant that integrates with productivity tools through MCP, enabling users to accomplish tasks like planning, research, and project management using voice commands, powered by ElevenLabs Conversational AI with low latency and multimodal support.
Rowan Cheung's podcast delves into cutting-edge AI advancements, featuring experts discussing AI's potential to cure diseases, the rise of AI agents, the future of work, and AI's role in education, while exploring groundbreaking models and technologies from tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta.
A revolutionary brain implant allows a paralyzed individual to communicate through synthesized speech and singing by capturing neural signals from the speech region of their brain, using AI to decode and reproduce their voice and vocal inflections in real time.
Music icon Timbaland faces intense backlash after launching an AI music label featuring an AI singer named TaTa, sparking outrage from fans who accuse him of prioritizing artificial intelligence over human artists, leading to a bizarre AI-generated video response mocking critics.
SAG-AFTRA and major video game companies have reached a tentative deal on a new contract after months of strike, addressing concerns over AI replicas and securing important gains for performers.
Google Labs' Portraits experiment allows conversational AI interactions with trusted experts, starting with bestselling author Kim Scott's AI-powered coaching on communication and leadership.
Toma's AI voice agents, tailored to car dealerships' needs through hands-on research, attracted $17 million funding from a16z and others, enabling the startup to expand its subscription service helping dealerships handle calls and operations efficiently.
The Wurzels, a folk band from Somerset, embraced AI technology to analyze their song catalog and gain lyrical inspiration, resulting in their new song 'Wurzel Me Up' that they playfully acknowledge plagiarizes their own work, raising questions about AI's role in creative processes.
Anthropic rolls out a beta voice mode for its Claude chatbot apps, allowing users to have spoken conversations with the AI assistant and enabling hands-free interactions while displaying key points on-screen and offering voice response options.
In a groundbreaking development, researchers have created an AI model that can autonomously learn to associate audio and visual data from videos without relying on human-labeled data, paving the way for more efficient and scalable multimodal learning approaches.