Text-to-speech changed fast in 2026. This guide ranks the leading commercial and open-weight TTS models, comparing quality, latency, cost, language coverage, and licensing so engineers can match a model to the job.
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In this tutorial, we implement a SkillNet use case as a practical framework for discovering, installing, inspecting, evaluating, and organizing reusable AI skills.
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Trajectory, working with UC Berkeley Sky Lab and Anyscale, built a concurrent multi-LoRA training stack for continual learning. It maps each RL experiment to a dedicated LoRA adapter on an always-hot engine, reporting a 2.81× end-to-end experiment-throughput gain over a single-tenant baseline with no reward regression. The code is open-sourced in NovaSky-AI/SkyRL.
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Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He’s a former engineer at Meta and an experienced tech founder who in 2022 sold his last venture – an e-commerce tool for businesses that use […]
Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: “Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on […]
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.
Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.
The golden age of Microsoft’s Github Copilot appears to be at an end.
The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.
The real question is not what the technology can do but what it ought to do. Sarah O’Connor on the people fighting for the future of work
Officials push for machines to make autonomous decisions on targets in exceptional circumstances
Nous Research’s Hermes Agent adds Tool Search to fix MCP context bloat using BM25 progressive schema disclosure.
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Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0 on May 27, 2026 — a four-component simulation platform covering physics, rendering, compilation, and tooling. The system achieves a Pearson correlation of 0.8996 between simulation and real-world robot rollouts, and reduces policy evaluation time from over 200 hours to under 0.5 hours.
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I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.
I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time – that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder. Lots of the top-line […]
AI enthusiasm and hopes for deal to extend US-Iran ceasefire boost markets
Venture funding has always been a world of haves and have nots. And these days, the haves are having more than ever. Case in point this week was generative AI giant Anthropic’s $65 billion Series H funding, followed by a billion-dollar funding for an AI software developer.
OpenAI’s latest governance frameworks offer enterprise leaders a structured blueprint for scaling safe and compliant AI deployments globally. The adoption of large language models has steadily progressed towards requiring sustainable, commercial-grade architecture. OpenAI has released its Frontier Governance Framework (FGF), documenting how the organisation addresses systemic risk assessment and mitigation. The framework maps directly to […]
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StepFun releases Step 3.7 Flash, a 198B MoE model with native vision, 256k context, and Advisor Mode.
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NVIDIA’s X-Token fixes two structural failures in GOLD and improves GSM8k accuracy from 2.56 to 15.54
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AgentTrove is the largest open-source collection of agentic interaction traces, with 1.7M rows in a ShareGPT-style layout. This hands-on Python tutorial shows how to stream the dataset without full downloads, normalize agent turns, extract commands, analyze trajectories, and export successful traces into a clean SFT fine-tuning dataset.
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OpenAI shares guidance on third-party AI evaluations, covering how to assess model capabilities, safeguards, and validity for frontier systems.
Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease cases.
How Braintrust engineers use Codex with GPT-5.5 to run experiments and code faster.
Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.
Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent.
AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch – because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch – is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on […]
Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There’s still no question that Ferrari’s first electric vehicle is one of the most interesting, surprising cars of the year. With a decidedly un-Ferrari look, and lots of new technology and designs courtesy of […]
This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers’ homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal. But there’s a catch. There’s always a catch. In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of […]
South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI’s real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with nature while collecting bird species on an app like Pokémon, give this smart feeder a try.
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The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, […]
