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Hugging Face Can Now Rank Every Open-Source Voice AI in Hours
More than 8,000 text-to-speech models exist, but testing them has always taken too long. A new automated scorecard changes that, and puts open-source voices on equal footing for the first time.
Pocket FM now makes 99% of its new audio content with AI, and revenue has hit $500 million
The Indian audio storytelling app has slashed production costs by 80 times and grown its library to 770,000 series. Humans still write the ideas. AI does almost everything else.
Amazon Prime Video Now Syncs Actors' Lips to Dubbed Audio Using AI
A new feature on Prime Video matches on-screen mouth movements to translated dialogue. It starts with one German show, but Amazon plans to roll it out more widely.
AI is making our screen time more solitary. People are pushing back.
A growing number of writers and researchers argue that as AI fills our feeds with personalised, automated content, something ordinary and important is slipping away: the experience of watching, reading, or listening to the same thing at the same time as strangers.
Amazon and Twitch Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Using Streamers' Videos to Train AI
A Connecticut streamer is leading a lawsuit on behalf of millions of Twitch broadcasters who say Amazon fed their live videos into AI training systems without asking first.
Amazon's Alexa+ AI Assistant Is Coming to Your Fire TV for Free, No Subscription Needed
Amazon is pushing its upgraded AI assistant to millions of Fire TV devices automatically. Here is what changes, what stays the same, and whether you can opt out.
AI-made music is creeping into the charts. Nobody can agree on what to do about it.
A rap artist's eerily off-sounding synth-pop single hit No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up 35 million Spotify streams. The music industry is still trying to figure out what that means.
Twitch adds opt-out for Amazon AI training, but your data is on by default
A new privacy toggle lets streamers and viewers remove their videos, clips, and chats from Amazon's generative AI training pool. The catch: it starts switched on.
Roku now has a 24/7 channel that plays nothing but AI-generated slop
Fairground TV streams endless AI content around the clock. If you've ever wanted to watch weightless, uncanny footage with no plot, no real people, and no lip-sync, your ship has come in.
India Is Finally Paying for Apps, and AI Is Getting the Lion's Share
Indian consumers spent a record $345 million on mobile apps in a single quarter. ChatGPT and Claude alone took 83% of AI app revenue. Here is what the numbers really mean.
How AI is turning your music app into your everything app
Spotify, Netflix, YouTube and TikTok each started by owning one format. AI is now pushing all of them toward owning your entire evening.
Apple TV's Search Bar Now Learns What You Like to Watch
Apple's research team has built a smarter video search that starts personalising results from the very first letter you type.