Generative AI

Meta AI gets lip-synced translations and celebrity voices, like Judi Dench and John Cena

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Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, is getting a new voice mode of sorts. At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, Meta announced that Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud across platforms where it’s available: Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Facebook. You can choose from several voices, […]

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Audible experiments with new AI features for tailored audiobook recommendations

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Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service, continues to experiment with AI to improve audiobook discovery and offer customized recommendations. Recent tests involve AI-powered tags, which analyze customer feedback to offer tailored suggestions according to individual preferences, and topic pages that recommend tags to help you find closely related subjects. The experiments are only available to 50%

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Microsoft claims its new tool can correct AI hallucinations, but experts advise caution

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AI is a notorious liar, and Microsoft now says it has a fix for that. Understandably, that’s going to raise some eyebrows, but there’s reason to be skeptical. Microsoft today revealed Correction, a service that attempts to automatically revise AI-generated text that’s factually wrong. Correction first flags text that may be erroneous — say, a

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Spotify’s AI playlist feature rolls out to the U.S. and more markets

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Spotify has expanded the availability of its AI Playlist tool to the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand after initially launching it for Premium subscribers in the U.K. and Australia.  This feature, currently in beta on Android and iOS devices, allows users to create personalized playlists based on written prompts. For instance, users can enter

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Black Forest Labs, the company that powers Grok’s image generation, is raising another $100M on a $1B valuation, say sources

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While OpenAI pursues yet another monster fundraise, it is not stealing all the oxygen in the room: AI startups building promising foundational models can still open doors, and checkbooks. For example, multiple sources tell us that Black Forest Labs — a startup building generative AI image models, which only came out of stealth two months

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Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources

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While OpenAI pursues yet another monster fundraise, it is not stealing all the oxygen in the room: AI startups building promising foundational models can still open doors, and checkbooks. Multiple sources tell us that Black Forest Labs — a startup that’s building generative AI image models and came out of stealth two months ago with

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