Tag: artificial intelligence

This AI app will turn your reading list into a podcast with digital hosts

Podcasts can be a great way to learn complex subjects, but not everything you’re reading has been discussed in an episode. AI audio maker ElevenLabs is solving that with a new feature that reshapes documents you upload into an audio show with virtual hosts discussing the subject matter. The newGenFM…

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Google has a new chess game that lets you design the pieces with AI

GenChess lets you design the pieces with AI then play the board It uses the Imagen 3 image-generation engine from Google Gemini GenChess is free to play and you can redesign the pieces as many times as you like As well as being a main event sponsor of the 2024…

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Can’t find the right Spotify playlist? Let Gemini do it for you

Google Gemini is singing a new tune courtesy of Spotify and the new Gemini Extension for Android devices. The AI assistant will search for and play music for you on the streaming platform without the need for specific command phrases, instead relying on the same natural language you can use…

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The OpenAI Sora protest is just a taste of what’s coming in 2025 – here’s what needs to change

The recent protest against OpenAI by its unpaid beta testers has once again demonstrated that the goals of well-funded AI companies are often at odds with the goals of the artists whose time is used in testing or whose work has been used to train the AI in the first…

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You can now ask Claude to mimic your writing style

Anthropic is rolling out new ways for you to change how your Claude AI chatbot communicates with a new range of pre-set and custom writing styles. Instead of explaining in every prompt how you want the AI to respond, you’ll be able to tailor its conversation to your needs. That…

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OpenAI’s Sora and other AI video makers look amazing in their demos – why won’t they let us try them?

I was intrigued and impressed when OpenAI first demonstrated Sora earlier this year. There seemed no limit to the films the AI video model could produce out of a text prompt. Sora could effortlessly transform descriptions into immersive, realistic videos, and OpenAI coyly hinted at a general rollout in the…

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