Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis. Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It…
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Meta and its AI glasses hardware partner EssilorLuxottica are getting ready to launch the next generation of their Ray-Ban AI glasses. That’s according to a series of FCC filings for…
French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI….
Mate Rimac, the founder of Croatian electric vehicle maker Rimac Group, started working on electric robotaxis seven years ago. Now part of his vision is coming to fruition through a strategic partnership between Uber, Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai, and his own robotaxi startup Verne. The three companies announced plans Thursday to launch a commercial…
“Being on the screen, it keeps us looking at the external world. When we go into our internal world and we sort of stare into space, into the middle distance, it allows us to think about the past, it allows us to visualise the future, it predicts creativity.
The surveillance tech industry today is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tapping into Flock’s camera network to surveil people, and home camera maker Ring drawing criticism for building new features that would enable law enforcement to ask homeowners for footage of their…
The “Red Scare” and theinfamous Hollywood blacklist of theMcCarthyera will be the timely topics of the retrospective at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. Under the titleRed & Black–Hollywood Left and the Blacklist, theSwiss festival’s Retrospettiva, once again curated by EhsanKhoshbakht, will put the spotlight on “one of the most turbulent and politically charged periods in…
In recent years a growing number of sports federations, including World Aquatics and World Athletics, have barred athletes who have undergone male puberty from competing in elite female competition amid concerns over fairness and safety. Last May the Football Association and England and Wales Cricket Board were among a number of British sports bodies to…
Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. Recently, an acquaintance mentioned that a backup drive containing essential work data had failed. They noted the drive had become “painfully slow” before dying completely, adding that the device had always been sluggish and unreliable. Just what you want from a storage drive. Modern storage drives are…
Including 10 Reaper Strike Drones; Additional Planes Badly DamagedWashington (March 26, 2026): At least 16 US military aircraft have been lost since the start of the conflict with Iran, according to a detailed report by Bloomberg.The losses include 10 MQ-9 Reaper strike drones downed primarily by Iranian air defenses. In addition, half a dozen other…
