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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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OpenAI seeks new "Head of Preparedness" for AI risks like cyberattacks and mental health

OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness. The position focuses on safety risks posed by AI models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman points to the now well-documented effects of AI models on mental health as one ...
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Zara uses AI to dress models virtually instead of booking new photo shoots

Zara is using artificial intelligence to digitally edit photos of models. The Spanish fashion giant reaches out to models and asks for permission to reuse existing images, reports City AM from London.
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Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal sure looks like an acquisition as 90 percent of staff moves over

In case there was any doubt that Nvidia's Groq deal is anything but a takeover in disguise: according to Axios, roughly 90 percent of the workforce—including CEO Jonathan Ross and President Sunny ...
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ChatGPT's market share falls to 68 percent as Gemini closes in

ChatGPT's grip on the generative AI market continues to slip, according to new data from Similarweb. The chatbot's share of website traffic dropped from 87.2 percent to 68 percent over the past year.
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: OpenAI merges internal teams to fix audio AI accuracy gap ahead of ChatGPT hardware push OpenAI is building its planned ChatGPT hardware around conversation. To make that work ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

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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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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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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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 ...