ElevenReader Updated With ‘GenFM’ AI Podcasts Feature to Compete With Google’s NotebookLM

ElevenReader Updated With ‘GenFM’ AI Podcasts Feature to Compete With Google’s NotebookLM

ElevenLabs on Wednesday introduced a new feature on its ElevenReader app that can generate instant podcast-like audio using artificial intelligence (AI). Dubbed GenFM, the feature allows users to add any text or a YouTube video and convert it into a conversational podcast with two AI ‘hosts’ voicing insights and interesting…

Anthropic Introduces Custom Styles in Claude AI That Can Match Users’ Writing Style

Anthropic Introduces Custom Styles in Claude AI That Can Match Users’ Writing Style

Anthropic introduced a new feature in Claude on Tuesday that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to generate responses in users’ preferred writing style. Dubbed Custom Style, the new feature is aimed at the chatbot’s responses more in tune with how the user generally writes and prefers to read….

Google Gemini Spotify Extension With Play and Search Functions Rolling Out

Google Gemini Spotify Extension With Play and Search Functions Rolling Out

Google Gemini is getting a new extension that will allow the app to play and search for songs from the Spotify app. The new feature will be supported by the Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant on compatible Android devices. With this, users can link their Spotify account to their Google…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says ‘The Age of AI Has Started’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says ‘The Age of AI Has Started’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Saturday that global collaboration and cooperation in technology will continue, even if the incoming U.S. administration imposes stricter export controls on advanced computing products. President-elect Donald Trump, in his first term in office, imposed a series of restrictions on the sale of U.S. technology…

Amazon Doubles Down on AI Startup Anthropic With Another  Billion

Amazon Doubles Down on AI Startup Anthropic With Another $4 Billion

Amazon.com pumped another $4 billion into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, as the e-commerce giant goes up against Big Tech rivals in a race to capitalize on generative artificial intelligence technology. This doubles Amazon’s investment in the firm known for its GenAI chatbot Claude, but it remains a minority investor, the startup…

OpenAI Planning AI-Powered Web Browser, Could Rival Google Chrome: Report

OpenAI Planning AI-Powered Web Browser, Could Rival Google Chrome: Report

OpenAI is reportedly planning to build a native web browser powered by artificial intelligence (AI). As per a report, the AI firm is planning to take on Google Chrome with its browser platform and has started discussing its plans with several website and app developers. Separately, the AI firm is…

Brave Search Gets AI-Powered Chat Feature With Support for Follow-Up Queries

Brave Search Gets AI-Powered Chat Feature With Support for Follow-Up Queries

Brave rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Brave Search on Thursday. Earlier this year, the San Francisco-based software company introduced ‘Answer with AI’ to its search engine, a feature that shows AI-generated summaries for searched queries. Now, it has added an extension to this feature dubbed AI chat…

Adobe Develops SlimLM That Can Process Documents Locally on Devices Without Internet Connectivity

Adobe Develops SlimLM That Can Process Documents Locally on Devices Without Internet Connectivity

Adobe researchers have published a paper that details a new artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of processing documents locally on a device. Published last week, the paper highlights that researchers experimented with existing large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs) to find how to reduce the size of…

Coca-Cola responds to backlash over AI-generated Christmas ad
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Coca-Cola responds to backlash over AI-generated Christmas ad

Coca-Cola has issued a statement after copping huge backlash for creating an AI-generated Christmas commercial that fans labelled “disastrous.” Paying homage to the iconic drink’s 1995 “Holidays Are Coming” campaign, the new 15-second advert depicts a fleet of cherry red trucks driving down a snowy road to deliver ice-cold bottles…

Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Released, Can Rival OpenAI o1

Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Released, Can Rival OpenAI o1

A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model was released on Wednesday which claims to take on OpenAI’s o1 AI model in terms of advanced reasoning. Dubbed DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, the large language model (LLM) is said to have outperformed the o1 model on several benchmarks. Notably, the AI model is available to test…