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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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Zara uses AI to dress models virtually instead of booking new photo shoots

Zara is using artificial intelligence to digitally edit photos of models. The Spanish fashion giant reaches out to models and asks for permission to reuse existing images, reports City AM from London.
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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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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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ChatGPT's market share falls to 68 percent as Gemini closes in

ChatGPT's grip on the generative AI market continues to slip, according to new data from Similarweb. The chatbot's share of website traffic dropped from 87.2 percent to 68 percent over the past year.
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Baidu's in-house chip unit Kunlunxin joins wave of Chinese AI firms heading for Hong Kong IPO Baidu's AI chip division, Kunlunxin, has confidentially filed for an IPO in Hong ...
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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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OpenAI is teaching developers how to build deep research agents

OpenAI is demonstrating how deep research agents can automate complex research tasks. These agents use the recently released o3-deep-research-2025-06-26 model through OpenAI's API, as well as web ...
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OpenAI has reportedly misjudged its cash burn by $80 billion

The main reason for these numbers is the soaring cost of computing power needed to train and run OpenAI's models, along with a major push to build out its own server infrastructure. The company plans ...
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Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure

Generative AI systems reached around seven billion monthly web visits in September 2025, a 76% increase compared to the previous year, according to Similarweb. ChatGPT remains at the center of the AI ...
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Some Anthropic staffers are poised to become millionaires this month

The company is giving current and former staffers who have been with the company for at least two years a chance to cash out up to 20 percent of their shares—capped at $2 million per person. Anthropic ...