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Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis. Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs
The surveillance tech industry today is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy around the U.S.
OpenAI may be dialing back its efforts in the video generation market with the shutdown of its Sora app, but ByteDance on Thursday confirmed that its new audio and video model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is now rolling out in its editing platform, CapCut. ByteDance says the model allows creators to draf
Following backlash, OpenAI won’t be rolling out an erotic version of ChatGPT any time soon. According to the Financial Times, the controversial plan has been shelved “indefinitely” as OpenAI “refocuses” its attention on “core products.” Insiders told FT that OpenAI mulled scrapping the “adult mode”
Text generated by artificial intelligence often has a particular vibe that gives it away as machine-generated, but it has become harder to pick out those idiosyncrasies as the tech has improved. We may be seeing a similar evolution of generative AI audio.
Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s talking to Claude.
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Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the U.S.
OpenAI has put the kibosh on yet another project — at least for the time being. On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the AI company would be “indefinitely” pausing plans to develop an “erotic” mode for ChatGPT. The proposed “adult mode,” which CEO Sam Altman first floated in October, had i
the world’s leading chip design firms, announced Tuesday that it is producing its own semiconductors. The move is a departure from its long-standing model of licensing intellectual property to companies that manufacture and sell chips themselves.
金融领袖正积极采用强大多模态AI框架，自动化复杂工作流。从非结构化文档提取文本一直是开发者痛点。传统OCR系统难以准确数字化复杂布局，常将多栏文件、图片和分层数据集转为乱码文本。新兴多模态AI通过整合视觉与语言模型，精准解析图像、表格和手写内容，大幅提升效率。金融行业正从中受益，加速从合同审核到风险评估的全流程自动化，推动数字化转型。（128字）
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often described as a company’s “central brain” because the software connects different departments — including finance, HR, and inventory — into a single database where everyone shares the same information. In recent years, a new crop of AI-powered ERP
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The AI-powered notetaking app Granola, valued at $1.5 billion, has become a popular tool among tech industry founders and VCs. But one developer believes there’s demand for a more private, local-only alternative that’s available for a one-time fee and without a subscription.
OpenAI said Tuesday it is releasing a set of prompts that developers can use to make their apps safer for teens.
Google unveiled three Gemini-powered features for Google TV on Tuesday, including AI-powered visual responses, the ability to deep dive into virtually any topic, and narrated overviews of sports games. A particularly noteworthy addition is the introduction of visual responses.
OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT into an e-commerce hub aren’t exactly panning out — at least, not yet.
Storied semiconductor and software company Arm Holdings is starting to make its own chips after nearly 36 years of licensing its designs to companies like Nvidia and Apple. At an event Tuesday in San Francisco, the company revealed the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready chip built for running inference
With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced on Tuesday that it was launching a new security product called Lakewatch.
At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that allows artists to review releases before they go live on their profiles.
