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ElevenLabs launches curated marketplace for verified iconic AI voices
The voice of Michael Caine, or the crackle of Thomas Edison, can now be licensed, not cloned, but curated.
Mozilla adds AI Window to Firefox, enabling chat with browser assistant
Mozilla is carving a new feature directly into Firefox's side panel: a dedicated AI chat window. Launching today, this "AI Window" is the organization's most tangible move since its "shake to summarize" tool for iPhone debuted last fall.
Spotify adds AI-powered Recap button to select English audiobooks on iOS
Open an audiobook on Spotify’s iOS app, and you might notice a new button lurking near the playback controls. It’s called Recap. And it’s powered by AI.
Zuppa signs MoU with startup Eighth Dimension to develop AI swarm intelligence
Zuppa and Eighth Dimension have signed a memo. This is not news. Companies sign memos every day, and most of them are just paperwork that leads to a press release and nothing else. But this one might be different.
EdgeRunner AI runs assistant on gpt-oss as open-weight models join US military
Every defense contractor sells AI now. EdgeRunner AI is one of the few actually building something specific: a military assistant that works without a cloud. In places with no signal, that’s not a feature. It’s the entire point.
World Labs Unveils Marble 3D Multimodal Model and Marble Labs Workspace
World Labs just made the generative 3D space a bit more real. It’s a field thick with research demos and vaporware, but their new Marble model and the accompanying Marble Labs workspace look like an actual tool you might use.
Reverie Unveils India-Focused STT Model, 1.5× Faster Than Deepgram
India is a speech recognition nightmare. A call center conversation in Mumbai might bounce between Hindi, English, and two regional dialects in the span of a single sentence. Global tech giants have stumbled here for years.
Anthropic to Spend USD 50 B on US Data Centres, Adding 2,400 Jobs
AI needs real estate. A lot of it. Anthropic is buying a stake with a plan to drop $50 billion on new data centers in the US, a move that promises 2,400 construction jobs and reveals the staggering physical cost of this software arms race.
TCS teams with Norway’s SINTEF to apply AI for longer home care
Tata Consultancy Services is betting on aging Norwegians for its next business. The IT giant is partnering with the Norwegian research institute SINTEF, aiming to wire artificial intelligence into the homes of the elderly.
Cloudera, Intel team up to accelerate enterprise AI in APAC with Xeon 6
You can spot the new enterprise AI play from orbit. Two big vendors, a press release, and a promise to fix everything.
ElevenLabs launches AI marketplace to license famous voices for ads
You can't legally paste a celebrity's face onto your billboard. Starting this week, however, you can rent their voice. The AI audio startup ElevenLabs is opening a digital storefront where brands can license synthetic versions of famous voices.
Yann LeCun to leave Meta, launch AI startup, distanced from Llama models
Yann LeCun is getting out of Meta. After almost a decade as the company's chief AI scientist, he is leaving to start his own venture. This isn't a quiet retirement.
Indian firms push developers onto Cursor, sparking skill-fade concerns
Indian tech firms are mandating a new piece of software, and it's not some corporate VPN. They're telling developers to install Cursor, an AI coding assistant. The order is simple: use this to write code faster. The effect is not.
Google launches Trillium TPUs in India to boost AI adoption locally
Google wants to win India's AI race with hardware. The company just launched its new Trillium data center chips in the country, betting that local access to its most powerful processors will attract developers. It’s a supply chain move.
CAMB.AI and Broadcom embed Voice AI on chip for local translation, dubbing, captioning
Most AI translation tools are glorified cloud call centers. Your voice gets shipped to a data center, processed, and sent back, creating a small but palpable lag.
AI4Bharat unveils Indic LLM Arena to benchmark Indian language AI
Tech giants keep promising AI that gets India. The results, from English-first chatbots to culturally tone-deaf translators, suggest they don't. Most models collapse on Hinglish banter or stumble through a Bengali request.
Chronosphere pits AI against Datadog, touts 85% cost cut, 10× Black Friday load
Every observability startup promises to dethrone Datadog. Chronosphere might be the first with receipts. Its case against the giant isn't just about features. It's about money and raw performance during the worst traffic imaginable.
ASEAN's USD 300B digital economy draws USD 2.3B into 680+ AI startups
Southeast Asia’s digital economy hit a $300 billion valuation, and now it's an AI gold rush. Investors poured $2.3 billion into the sector in just one year.
Qodo’s Git-integrated, human-in-the-loop model eases AI code overload
Coding is now a battle against your own tools. The AI you asked for floods your screen with suggestions. You spend more time reviewing its code than writing your own. Qodo, a startup, is trying to fix this. Its tool connects straight to GitHub.
Baseten takes on hyperscalers with AI platform that lets users own model weights
Every AI startup wants to be an alternative to Amazon or Google. Baseten is trying to do it by selling shovels you can actually keep. The company is pitching a different kind of AI infrastructure. Its main offer is full ownership of model weights.
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