MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) — As New Hampshire voters prepared to cast their votes in the state’s first-in-the nation primary Tuesday, a robocall is circulating in the state urging Democrats to stay home—using a fake audio of U.S. President Joe Biden.
“It’s important that you save your vote for the November election. . . . voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again,” the call says.
Today, AI-powered synthetic voice cloning company ElevenLabs announced that it has closed an $80 million series B round. The new funding gives the two-year-old startup a valuation of more than $1 billion, up from $100 million last June. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, and other investors included Sequoia Capital and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
Through ElevenLabs’s speech-generation app users can produce voices that sound real, even adjusting vocal characteris
Launching breakthrough innovations in the market requires taking the long view and accepting that most disruptive technologies take time to permeate and change consumer behavior, even more so in the sustainability space, where purchase behavior continues to lag stated consumer values of protecting the environment—often dubbed the “value action gap.” Because what people say and do are two different things (especially in sustainability and food), it’s easy for compan
BOSTON (AP) — State-backed Russian hackers broke into Microsoft’s corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of the company’s leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams, the company said Friday.
In a blog post, Microsoft said the intrusion began in late November and was discovered on January 12. It said the same highly skilled Russian hacking team behind the SolarWinds breach was responsible.
Social media company X’s platform has less antisemitic content compared with other applications, according to audits it has commissioned, X owner Elon Musk said on Monday at a conference on combating antisemitism.
Musk visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau site of a former Nazi German concentration camp earlier in the day, before appearing at the conference in the southern Polish city of Krakow, which addressed the rise in antisemitism since the Israel-Hamas conflict started in Octo
For the past 20 years, the media’s working relationship with big technology platforms like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. has been a Faustian bargain. Tech giants provided access to the largest audience in human history (not an exaggeration) and in exchange, the media industry handed over ultimate control of their own fate. Big tech controlled the media’s understanding of analytics, KPIs, and editorial value, all while mediating their relationship with both audiences and advert
In an Instagram video posted on his account last month, former Hype House member and influencer Tayler Holder sits on a stool wearing a T-shirt that says “Jesus Loves You.” “A lot of you probably don’t know much about me,” he tells an off-screen audience. “You’ve seen a small part of my life on a screen and always kind of known me as that TikTok kid.”
But, as always, the comments tell another story. “All of the sudden yo
When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor.
This was before ChatGPT existed, and fewer people were talking about the wonders of AI. But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson. That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on Jeopardy in 2011.
Nitta says he wa
Intel would like you to believe that its latest processors have ushered in a new era of personal computing.
As the chipmaker puts it, this is the age of the “AI PC,” in which dedicated neural processors help to run large language models, generate artwork, and perform a slew of other machine learning tasks. By boosting on-device AI, Intel believes we’ll see new applications that were either cost-prohibitive or too much of a privacy nightmare to run in the cloud.
Last April, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman made a strategic error that, at the time, made perfect Silicon Valley sense. For years, large firms had been using freely available public data from Reddit to train their large language models. With the explosion of generative AI tools entering the market and a long-awaited IPO in the works, Huffman saw an opportunity to finally cash in on this untapped potential resource by introducing new paywalls for accessing Reddit data. But he made this decision seem