Artificial Intelligence

In brief CADA revealed that DJ Thy, host of “Workdays With Thy,” is an AI created using ElevenLabs technology. The station had not initially disclosed Thy was created using artificial intelligence. An Australian radio station is facing backlash after admitting that one of its popular on-air hosts, Thy, is actually an AI-generated DJ. Thy, who […]

In brief A viral ChatGPT tweet used symbols and gibberish to depict humanity’s future, fueling speculation about a secret AI language. When tested, major AI models produced inconsistent results and translations, showing no replicable encoding system exists. The incident highlights our human instinct to find meaning in the meaningless. A tweet went viral Thursday after

In brief Trump signed an executive order to expand AI education through a new national initiative and task force. The plan promotes AI training in schools, and supports teacher development. It remains unclear how the administration will implement the initiative, following cuts to education funding. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to

In brief Tiny, open-source AI model Dia-1.6B claims to beat industry giants like ElevenLabs or Sesame at emotional speech synthesis. Creating convincing emotional AI speech remains challenging due to the complexity of human emotions and technical limitations. While it matches up well against competition, the “uncanny valley” problem persists as AI voices sound human but

What if your AI could help you “cheat on everything” without getting caught—even when someone’s watching? This is the literal premise behind Cluely, a desktop assistant designed to quietly bypass proctoring software, tools used to monitor and detect cheating during interviews and exams. “I got kicked out of Columbia for building Interview Coder, AI to

Kling 2.0, a major upgrade to the state-of-the-art AI video generator released by the Chinese tech firm Kuaishou, hit the market last week to a flood of jaw-dropping reactions from creators, who quickly burned through hundreds of dollars testing its capabilities. “AI video quality just 10x’d overnight. I’m speechless,” tweeted AI filmmaker PJ Ace, who

Despite the buzz surrounding artificial intelligence, even the most advanced vision-language models—GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.5 Pro—struggle with a decades-old challenge: playing the classic first-person shooter Doom. On Thursday, a new research project introduced VideoGameBench, an AI benchmark designed to test whether state-of-the-art vision-language models can play—and beat—a suite of 20 popular video

In brief The OmiGPT is a wearable AI device that’s powered by ChatGPT. Priced at $89, the lightweight device can be worn on your wrist or as a necklace. Other, pricier AI wearable devices have been met with poor sales and rough reviews. While some companies have pursued pricey, high-concept visions of always-on AI wearables,

xAI released Grok Studio today, offering users a canvas-style interface for building apps, writing documents, and developing browser games. The new feature pits Elon Musk’s AI company directly against OpenAI’s ChatGPT Canvas and Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts in the competitive AI productivity space. Grok Studio allows split-screen, real-time collaboration between users and the AI, enabling simultaneous