Meta's Zuckerberg joked about OpenAI, a user demonstrated a bizarre GPT-image feedback loop, and researchers achieved a breakthrough in synthesizing singing voices from any speaker, showcasing AI's rapid progress and potential risks.
Dia, a groundbreaking 1.6B parameter AI model, generates lifelike dialogue and voice cloning from text-to-speech, enabling highly realistic audio with controlled emotion, tone, and nonverbal cues like laughter, while supporting voice cloning by conditioning on provided audio transcripts.
Lovable 2.0 unveils an exciting update with multiplayer collaboration, AI chat assistance, security scans, visual editing, custom domains, and revamped pricing plans, starting at $25/month for Pro and $30/month for Teams, delivering a fresh UI and enhanced user experience.
Pushing the boundaries of QR code storage, The Backdooms is a retro DOOM-inspired game ingeniously compressed and encoded to fit entirely within a scannable QR code, enabling offline play of a self-contained web application without any additional downloads.
Over 30 individuals, including Nobel laureates and former OpenAI employees, urge authorities to block OpenAI's proposed for-profit restructuring, arguing it violates the company's original charitable mission, while OpenAI maintains it can still benefit humanity in this new model.
Imogen Heap pioneers new AI music tools on her platform Jen, enabling artists to generate novel songs by combining text prompts with her original 'stylefilters,' aiming to empower creators in the rapidly evolving generative audio landscape.
AI video avatars revolutionize content creation, enabling lifelike, multilingual videos without cameras, mirroring voice, expressions, and gestures through customizable or stock AI-generated avatars.
OpenAI plans to unveil an unrestricted, best-in-class AI reasoning model for consumer use in early summer, designed to run on high-end hardware and potentially enable developers to customize its reasoning capabilities under a highly permissive license.
Tempus AI unveils groundbreaking $200M deals with AstraZeneca and Pathos AI to build the largest AI model in oncology, harnessing multimodal data to drive biological insights, drug target discovery, and therapeutic development for cancer patients.
Kenya's teacher shortage has prompted some educators to turn to AI assistants like ChatGPT to manage workloads, but limited internet connectivity and concerns over standardization and trust in the technology pose challenges to widespread adoption, sparking debate over investing in AI tools versus hiring more teachers.