When text-to-speech goes down the drain • The Register
Bork!Bork!Bork! UK water company Severn Trent learned an unfortunate lesson about text-to-speech systems when a robocall to customers…
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
When I was a little girl, there was nothing scarier than a stranger. In the late 1980s and…
‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward | AI (artificial intelligence)
Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty – or…
Billion-dollar AI startup founders are getting younger — here’s why
Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale, attends an AI summit in Paris in February 2025. Getty Images The…
Google Trends Explore page uses Gemini to delve into Search trends
Google Trends has always been a place where people can learn more about what’s happening in the world…
Will Google be third time lucky with new, AI-powered smart glasses?
It has been over a decade since Google Glass smart glasses were announced in 2013, followed by their…
New AI-powered preventive health provider emerges in Europe
Ahead Health lands $6m in seed funding to accelerate digital-first approach to early detection of disease. Swiss preventive…
Linus may vibe code, but that doesn’t make it best practice • The Register
Opinion Vibe coding got a big boost when everyone’s favorite open source programmer, Linux’s Linus Torvalds, said he’d…
China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US government cleared for export – report | Nvidia
Suppliers of parts for Nvidia’s H200 have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the newly…
Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it’s focused on AI-generated content that is ‘consumed by players,’ not efficiency tools used behind the scenes
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney recently said digital storefronts like Steam should stop using AI disclosure labels because…
A new family of open translation models
Today, we’re introducing TranslateGemma, a new collection of open translation models built on Gemma 3, available in 4B,…
New AI groundwater map could reshape U.S. water use
Most of the freshwater in the United States isn’t in rivers or lakes. It’s underground, hidden at different…