Tag: Software
Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly – remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin – with a…
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YouTube may be planning to give us new AI song generators this year – and this time the music labels could let it happen
The battle between the music industry and the rampant, often copyright-infringing, use of AI to train and compile data sets has been heating up for quite some time. But now YouTube is reportedly negotiating with record labels to pay for that privilege instead. It seems that Sony Music Entertainment, Universal…
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Amazon is reportedly working on its own AI chatbot that might be smarter than ChatGPT
Amazon is reportedly working on its own AI chatbot, codenamed “Metis”, that’ll operate in a similar vein to ChatGPT. According to Business Insider, who spoke “to people familiar with the project,” the new platform will be accessible through a web browser. They also viewed an internal document revealing the chatbot’s…
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Watch the AI-produced film Toys”R”Us made using OpenAI’s Sora – and get misty about the AI return of Geoffrey the Giraffe
Toys”R”Us premiered a film made with OpenAI‘s artificial intelligence text-to-video tool Sora at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival. “The Origin of Toys”R”Us” was produced by the company’s entertainment production division Toys”R”Us Studios, and creative agency Native Foreign, who scored alpha access to Sora since OpenAI hasn’t released it to the…
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This app can add AI narration to any site or text – here’s how to make it work
Artificial intelligence-powered audio creator ElevenLabs has brought its synthetic voices to the iPhone with a new iOS app. The ElevenLabs Reader App will read out any uploaded text or website using ElevenLabs’ library of synthetic and cloned voices, even your own if you want. The new app essentially turns books,…
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macOS Sequoia has yet another cool feature to look forward to, this time adding a way to customize your AirPods Audio experience
It seems like every day, there is a new macOS Sequoia feature to look forward to, or some kind of improvement in Apple’s incoming OS, with a freshly spotted one opening up the doors to improved accessibility on the audio front. MacRumors has been busy playing with the macOS 15…
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