Microsoft is testing a new native real-time voice model, MAI Realtime, which has appeared as a hidden early-access entry in its MAI Playground. The bidirectional, full-duplex system, which listens and…
Former NCSoft president Songyee Yoon, now founder of Principal Venture Partners, argues that AI learns in a broken way compared to humans and that this gap presents an investment opportunity for start…
A large-scale study (n=4,100) by researchers found that AI-powered voice phishing achieves compliance rates comparable to human scammers, with up to 36% of participants falling for a "relative-in-dist…
Researchers introduced Sesame, a diffusion-based molecular generation model that conditions on partial molecular structure and protein pockets via spatial density maps, enabling both de novo drug desi…
Miso Labs released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model that generates expressive speech from text and audio context. The model uses residual vector quantization to expand…
Sesame, the conversational AI startup co-founded by Oculus founders, launched its iOS app on Thursday, offering a public preview of AI agents designed to speak more naturally by running parallel searc…
Sesame released an iOS preview of its lifelike conversation partners, now available in the App Store across 39 countries. The preview introduces four digital agents—Maya, Miles, Simone, and Charlie—ea…