
Overcoming Uncanny Valley in AI Voices
AI speech synthesis shifts from technical mimicry to experiential adaptation to avoid uncanny valley effect. Traces TTS evolution across splicing, parametric, and generative stages.
虎嗅 · 199d ago
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AI speech synthesis shifts from technical mimicry to experiential adaptation to avoid uncanny valley effect. Traces TTS evolution across splicing, parametric, and generative stages.
虎嗅 · 199d ago

Cortical Labs is building two small data centers run by human brain cells in Singapore and Melbourne. Lab-grown neurons are placed onto silicon chips.
Bloomberg Technology · 199d ago
fast-vad is an ultra-fast voice activity detector in Rust with Python bindings for easy integration. Offers batch/streaming APIs and sensible defaults, trained on libriVAD dataset.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 199d ago

News organizations are urgently creating AI guidelines, debating if reporters can use AI for drafting, summarizing documents, or research. Some disclose AI assistance to readers, while others shun it for credibility.
SCMP Technology · 199d ago

CUDA 13.2 introduces enhanced CUDA Tile support on compute capability 8.X architectures (NVIDIA Ampere and Ada), plus 10.X and 12.X (NVIDIA Blackwell). An upcoming CUDA Toolkit release will fully support all GPUs from Ampere onward.
NVIDIA Developer Blog · 199d ago

Azoma unveiled the Agentic Merchant Protocol (AMP), a framework for e-commerce brands to make products visible to AI shopping agents. Trusted by L’Oréal, Unilever, Mars, and Beiersdorf, it centralizes product data for distribution to AI-optimized platforms.
VentureBeat · 199d ago

NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Nano is now available as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock. This follows prior support for Nemotron 2 Nano 9B and VL 12B models announced at AWS re:Invent.
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 199d ago

IAG is preparing its software engineering teams for AI integration. The company is prioritizing prompt-driven skills to enhance AI capabilities.
iTNews Australia · 199d ago

Insurance Australia Group (IAG) is preparing its integration engineering teams for AI adoption. The company is prioritizing the development of prompt-driven skills to handle AI integration effectively.
iTNews Australia · 199d ago

Amazon Bedrock introduces Global cross-Region Inference for Anthropic Claude models in India. The post explains capabilities of each Claude variant and includes a code example to quickly build generative AI applications.
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 199d ago
Dutch military and domestic intelligence warn of Russian hackers' global campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts of dignitaries, military, and officials via fake support chatbots. Victims reveal PINs, enabling access to incoming messages.
Engadget · 199d ago

PyTorch announces strong presence at NVIDIA GTC 2026 in San Jose, March 16-19, with demos at Meta Booth #338. Highlights include hands-on Helion kernel authoring and ExecuTorch on-device inference demos.
PyTorch Blog · 199d ago

A study finds moody humans should let AI process bad public feedback initially to avoid embarrassing responses. Angry company replies to customer complaints often become internet spectacles.
The Register - AI/ML · 199d ago
Apple released four new products for spring 2026, including two flagship MacBooks and two Studio Displays. IT之家 provides a first-hand video review of their usage experience and purchase recommendations.
IT之家 · 199d ago

New MacBooks with M5 chips, including $1,099 M5 MacBook Air and $6,149 16-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro, match prior designs but offer faster SSDs. They don't significantly outperform M4 models but appeal to owners of older laptops.
The Verge · 199d ago

Anthropic's blog outlines three workflow patterns for combining multiple AI agents to solve problems effectively. Rather than simply delegating entire tasks, it emphasizes designing mechanisms that play to AI agents' strengths.
ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 199d ago

Alger's Ankur Crawford highlights insatiable demand for AI computing power. She also notes interest in gold and describes markets as directionless and choppy.
Bloomberg Technology · 199d ago

Razer has revealed a fully agentic version of its AI companion AVA. It can run locally on a PC or in the cloud.
Digital Trends · 199d ago

NVIDIA Megatron Core implements Falcon-H1 Hybrid Architecture to advance large language model training at scale. This open-source library delivers industry-leading parallelism and GPU-optimized performance.
NVIDIA Developer Blog · 199d ago

Microsoft is using Anthropic's Claude to enhance Copilot Cowork as a better agent for long-running knowledge work tasks. Frontier program customers can now choose between Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.
The Register - AI/ML · 199d ago

New Claude Code Review tool deploys AI agents to scan pull requests for bugs. Each review costs up to $25.
ZDNet AI · 199d ago
Researchers introduce a testbed using censored Chinese LLMs like Qwen to study secret knowledge elicitation, honesty techniques, and lie detection. Sampling without chat templates, few-shot prompting, and fine-tuning boost truthful responses on censored topics.
AI Alignment Forum · 199d ago
Student retrains GitHub CNN for medical IoT threat detection by adding noise to dataset, seeing only slight gains. Wonders if it's worthwhile versus manual data expansion.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 199d ago

Apple is postponing its long-planned smart home display launch until later this year. The delay stems from ongoing artificial intelligence struggles and waits for new AI and Siri enhancements.
Bloomberg Technology · 199d ago

OpenAI and Anthropic are evolving into AI app stores as consumers adopt more generative AI tools. Andreessen Horowitz's Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report highlights this trend.
Bloomberg Technology · 199d ago
Hugging Face launches Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact 1B-parameter speech model supporting multiple languages. Designed for edge devices, it enables efficient on-device speech processing.
Hugging Face Blog · 199d ago

Harvey, an AI provider for legal services, launched a tool enabling law firms to build custom AI agents. CEO Winston Weinberg emphasizes focusing on the legal market niche.
Bloomberg Technology · 199d ago

AI voice startup ElevenLabs plans to prepare for an IPO within two to three years. CEO Mati Staniszewski shared this ambition.
Bloomberg Technology · 199d ago
Samsung announced at GDC 2026 that its Odyssey 3D Hub will offer 120 playable games by year-end, up from around 60 currently. The platform supports glasses-free 3D monitors featuring head tracking.
Engadget · 199d ago

Apple released watchOS 26.4 developer preview Beta 4 (build 23T5236a) to Apple Watch users on March 10, 7 days after Beta 3. Developers can upgrade via the Apple Developer Program in Settings > General > Software Update.
IT之家 · 199d ago