Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in ...

Apple trained an AI that captions images better than models ten times its size

Apple researchers have developed a new way to train AI models for image captioning that delivers accurate descriptions while ...

10 major AI companies you should know about

These 10 companies are at the cutting edge of the AI revolution. Here's how they're driving innovation and leading the ...
InfoQ

DoorDash Builds DashCLIP to Align Images, Text, and Queries for Semantic Search Using 32M Labels

DoorDash has launched a multimodal machine learning system that aligns product images, text, and user queries in a shared ...
Chiang Rai Times

Thailand is Reshaping the Software Development Lifecycle With AI

Testing is where Thailand's AI adoption often pays off quickly, because it reduces waiting. AI can draft unit tests from code, suggest regression ...
Engadget

Ukraine allows allies to train AI models on its battlefield data

Ukraine's four-year war with Russia has made it the world leader in battlefield drone technology. One byproduct of that is that the data it collects has become one of the country's most valuable ...
Law

Healthcare Tech Firm Hit With Class Action for Allegedly Stealing Genetic Data to Train AI Models

Healthcare Tech Firm Hit With Class Action for Allegedly Stealing Genetic Data to Train AI Models A healthcare technology firm was hit last week with a novel class action that accuses it of illegally ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books

Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI ...
BGR

China Is Using Predators To Train Their New AI Weapons - Here's Why

Global militaries are desperate to gain an advantage in the escalating AI race, as rapid developments in largescale data analysis, robotics, and large language models increase the effectiveness of ...
Law

Class Suit Accuses Adobe of Using Pirated Books to Train AI Models

A class action accuses Adobe of secretly pulling hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books—including titles scraped from pirate “shadow libraries”—to train its new SlimLM small language models, in ...
TechCrunch

YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement in training its AI models

A group of YouTubers who are suing tech giants for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has now added Snap to their list of defendants. The plaintiffs — internet content ...
IFLScience

Scientists Forced AI Language Models To Play Dungeons & Dragons To See How Well They Concentrate

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...