GoodQ4All, a 100% private, offline video and audio analysis system, now runs on Windows 11, ingesting media into local knowledge graphs with scene segmentation, Whisper transcription, speaker diarizat…
ElevenLabs used its ElevenMusic v2 model to generate one-minute tracks combining each country's iconic music genre with lyrics in a different language, creating cross-cultural fusions like Mongolian t…
Voice AI startup Bland raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, after being rejected by 180 investors during Y Combinator. The company uses its own in-house voice model…
AI voice clones are up to 20% more intelligible than real human voices in noisy environments, according to a study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Researchers at Univers…
Klarna Chief Marketing Officer David Sandström created an internal AI replica of himself for employees to vent during budget cuts, according to Business Insider and Entrepreneur. The tool, built on El…
Karamo Brown, star of Netflix's 'Queer Eye,' launched Kē, a wellness app featuring an AI digital clone of himself powered by startup Delphi. The app offers personalized fitness, nutrition, and meditat…
Poland's state development bank BGK, through its venture arm Vinci, acquired an $11 million stake in AI-voice company ElevenLabs, valued at $11 billion, and launched AI Lab Poland to support domestic …
Poland has acquired an equity stake in ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesis company founded by Polish entrepreneurs Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski, as part of its strategy to become a leading Eur…
Antigravity, an agentic AI coding assistant, autonomously engineered a Rust-based agentic interface that allows users to control OBS Studio via natural language. The tool features a reasoning loop pow…
Hunar.AI has deployed voice AI agents to automate frontline hiring, powering over 500,000 calls daily for enterprises including Swiggy, Zepto, Croma, and Starbucks. The platform connects over 2 millio…
A comparison of five AI podcast generators in 2026 finds AudioCleaner best for free text-to-podcast creation, NotebookLM ideal for PDF analysis, and ElevenLabs offering premium voice quality but high …
A Davos 2026 chart and recent labor data show AI is thinning the middle rungs of professional hierarchies by cutting entry-level work. Stanford researchers found a 13% decline in 22-to-25-year-olds in…
A new AI workflow enables the generation of a complete YouTube video from a single prompt, using Claude Fable 5 to write the script, clone the voice, render the avatar, build motion graphics, and edit…
Claude has surpassed ChatGPT in US business spending, capturing 34.4% of AI spend compared to ChatGPT's 32.3%, according to Ramp's AI Index based on data from 40,000+ businesses. Starting June 15, age…
A new one-prompt AI video workflow chains Claude, ElevenLabs, HeyGen, and FFmpeg to generate a complete YouTube video—script, voiceover, avatar, and edit—from a single user prompt in under an hour, el…
A developer built a complete video generation pipeline using Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, without any manual image editing, video editing, or audio software. The pipeline, which creates explai…
Ben Murray and team launched GuruOS, an agentic operating system for info-businesses that coordinates AI agents to build courses, manage communities, write copy, and deploy traffic campaigns from a si…
A Hacker News user sparked a debate on the implications of AI-generated voices becoming indistinguishable from human speech, outlining two potential futures for the technology. The user predicts that …
A two-person team at a Vilnius hackathon wired a Raspberry Pi into a vintage rotary phone, creating an AI-powered device that could research music and generate playlists via voice commands. The projec…
ElevenLabs hosted a New York City pop-up where every experience was run by a voice agent, including an AI shopkeeper that negotiated prices with visitors. Business Insider reported that the shopkeeper…