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Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

AI startup Resemble AI is taking on Elevenlabs with "Chatterbox Turbo," an open text-to-speech model that can clone voices from just five seconds of audio. The company claims its new model beats both ...
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Security researchers catch "privacy" browser extensions siphoning AI chats and selling them via a data broker

The extensions intercept conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. Even when the VPN is switched off, data collection continues in the background.
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Scientific AI models trained on different data are learning the same internal picture of matter, study finds

Researchers at MIT have compared 59 scientific AI models trained for different tasks, including chemical formulas, 3D atomic coordinates, and protein sequences. Despite different architectures and ...
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The ARC benchmark's fall marks another casualty of relentless AI optimization

Update from December 25, 2025: Poetiq has raised the bar even higher on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark. The AI startup achieved a 75 percent accuracy rate on the public test dataset using OpenAI's GPT-5.2 ...
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Read full article about: OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API OpenAI has updated its Realtime API with three new model snapshots designed to improve transcription, speech synthesis, and ...
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OpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising

Paid users of ChatGPT recently saw a prompt asking them to connect their account with Target for shopping, which some interpreted as an advertisement. But an OpenAI product manager denied that any ...
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Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts three major AI trends for 2026

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, expects the next year to bring major progress in multimodal models, interactive video worlds, and more reliable AI agents. Speaking at the Axios AI+ Summit, ...
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Disney invests $1 billion to bring characters to Sora as it threatens Google

Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and becoming the first major content licensing partner for Sora, giving users access to roughly 200 Disney characters, props, and environments for about a year ...
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Meta is reportedly ditching open Llama models for Avocado, a closed model built for direct sales

According to Bloomberg's sources, Meta is shifting its focus to a new AI model codenamed "Avocado," with a release potentially coming next spring. Avocado is expected to launch as a closed model, ...
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OpenAI at 10: Altman sees superintelligence arriving by 2035

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts the company will likely build a superintelligence within the next ten years, marking the firm's tenth anniversary with a vision of exponentially growing machine ...
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Trump signs executive order threatening funding cuts over state AI rules

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from states whose AI regulations impede American innovation. Speaking to reporters, Trump argued ...
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Deepseek reportedly using thousands of smuggled Nvidia chips for AI training

Deepseek is said to have trained its new AI model with thousands of Nvidia Blackwell chips, which are not actually allowed to be sold to China due to US export regulations. According to reports, the ...