Google DeepMind has been tinkering with Lyria for a while now, offering limited access in developer-oriented products like ...

DuckDuckGo is offering its own voice AI chat feature built using OpenAI models, all for free, and with no data tracking at ...

Former NPR host David Greene is suing Google after accusing the tech giant of stealing his voice for use in one of its AI-powered tools. Greene, who presented NPR’s Morning Edition for eight years ...

Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads ...

Nick Varley (Lib Dem), who represents Kippington on Sevenoaks district and town councils, was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder in November 2024. Shamima Begum ‘could be freed’ in battle ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged the possibility that Optimus could overshadow the legacy of the brand’s electric vehicles. Tesla lost EV sales leadership to BYD in 2025 amid regulatory challenges.

AI translation has moved past clunky robot voices. From earbuds that translate 43 languages in half a second to Zoom calls that reanimate your lips to speak Japanese, Kim Komando scouts the gear that ...

From talking computers to self-driving cars, here are the trends to watch. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of Tech Fix, a column about the ...

If you start watching Mr. Robot on Netflix at exactly 11:48:06 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, you can hear Rami Malek say “Fuck society” in the pilot episode just as 2025 comes to an end. This feels like a ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Sean McLain reported Sunday on the recent Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California held earlier this month. McLain seems to have come away with the impression that ...

“The Voice” has crowned the winner of Season 28. After a season full of emotional ballads and powerful anthems, “The Voice” concluded its 28th season with a holiday-themed finale on Tuesday, Dec. 16, ...

When we use large language models to augment, improve, or accelerate our writing, they erase our human voice in the process. Let’s not be erased. The robots may be taking over, but no one seems to ...