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ElevenLabs' founder Mati Staniszewski said that, in the short term, AI audio models were still the "biggest advantage and the biggest step change you can have today."

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Fubo and Disney have officially completed the transaction to combine the live sports platform with Hulu Live TV.

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody has built a $10 billion empire freeing up valuable data from legacy industries, and making it available to AI labs.

With a market cap of $5 trillion, Nvidia is now worth more than the aggregated stock markets of all countries, apart from the United States, China and Japan.

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The U.S. inked Technology Prosperity Deals (TPD) with Japan and South Korea with an eye toward spurring collaboration on AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotech, space, 6G, and other...

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Grammarly is renaming itself as Superhuman after acquiring the Superhuman email client in July.

Phia founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni are building an AI assistant that aims to help you shop and save.

The move puts Uber in direct competitor with Waymo, which has dominated the metro area.

Mogul is a film studio fantasy platform where players draft a team of actors, directors, and movies to earn points.

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A security researcher found the Indian automotive giant exposing personal information of its customers, internal company reports, and dealers’ data. Tata confirmed it fixed the issues.

