Image Credits:Krisp.aiAudio startup Krisp announced on Wednesday a new AI-powered feature that modifies a user’s accent during calls. Initially, it will support converting Indian English accents to U.S. English.According to the company, the technology preserves the speaker’s voice while adjusting phonemes to align with American pronunciation. The feature has been tested in enterprise settings...
Image Credits:Silas Stein / picture alliance / Getty ImagesDuring a livestream on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the first major update to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in over a year.Now, ChatGPT can use the GPT-4o model to create and edit images directly. While GPT-4o has long powered OpenAI’s chatbot, it previously handled only text-based...
Image Credits:Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty ImagesMicrosoft is rolling out a “deep research” AI tool within Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI-powered chatbot app. Recently, several deep research agents have emerged across AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. These tools rely on reasoning AI models, which can analyze problems and verify...
Image Credits:Google DeepMindOn Tuesday, Google introduced Gemini 2.5, a new family of AI reasoning models designed to pause and “think” before responding to questions.The first in this series, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, is a multimodal AI model that Google describes as its most advanced yet. Starting Tuesday, it will be available in Google AI...
Image Credits:Boris SV / Getty ImagesThe Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by AI researcher François Chollet, revealed in a blog post on Monday that it has developed a new, highly challenging test to assess the general intelligence of advanced AI models.This new test, called ARC-AGI-2, has proven difficult for most models.According to the...
Using AI to save livesDepositphotosArtificial intelligence is quickly becoming a powerful tool in detecting cancer with greater precision than the human eye. A recent AI model has demonstrated an impressive near-perfect success rate, offering a glimpse into the future of cancer diagnosis.Global Team Develops ECgMPL AI Model for Endometrial Cancer DetectionA global team of...
Image Credits: Zastrozhnov(opens in a new window)/ Getty ImagesA controversy has emerged over "AI-generated" studies submitted to this year's ICLR, a well-established AI research conference.Three AI labs—Sakana, Intology, and Autoscience—claim their AI-generated studies were accepted into ICLR workshops, where submissions are typically reviewed by workshop organizers before publication.Sakana informed ICLR leadership before submitting its...
Image Credits: Cal AIIn a world of “vibe coding,” Zach Yadegari, the teen founder of Cal AI, is a surprising throwback to a more traditional approach.Despite being just 18 and still in high school, Yadegari and his co-founder, Henry Langmack, have built a success story. Since its launch in May, Cal AI has surpassed...
Image Credits:picture alliance / Contributor / Getty ImagesSocial media users have uncovered a controversial application of Google’s new Gemini AI model: stripping watermarks from images, including those from Getty Images and other major stock media providers.Last week, Google broadened access to the image generation feature of its Gemini 2.0 Flash model, enabling it to...
Image Credits:sompong_tom(opens in a new window)/ Getty ImagesSilicon Valley is betting big on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts they will “join the workforce” this year, while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes they will replace some knowledge-based jobs. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has even stated that the company aims to be “the number...
