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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs appoints Alexander Holt its field CTO
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs has appointed Alexander Holt as its field CTO (chief technology officer), company co-founder Mati Staniszewski announced on Monday. “Today, @i_am_holt becomes…
Amazon signs $30 million deal to buy carbon credits from Indian rice farmers
New Delhi: American ecommerce firm Amazon has signed a $30 million (₹280 crore) agreement with the Good Rice Alliance to buy carbon credits generated by…
Canada’s Cohere, Germany’s Aleph Alpha in merger talks: Report
Artificial intelligence companies Cohere of Canada and Aleph Alpha of Germany are in talks to merge and have Berlin’s support for a potential deal, newspaper…
Gains with a human connection remains consistent in age of AI: Zoom COO Aparna Bawa
Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to alter how work gets done and may affect certain roles, but its impact will depend on how companies choose…
Microsoft warns about growing global AI divide as it pledges $50 billion for Global South| Business News
Microsoft is referencing the India AI Impact Summit within the broader context of the Global South while mentioning a $50 billion investment by the end…
WD wins in AI gold rush, Braille credit cards, and Super Bowl ads| Business News
Good morning! Microsoft presumably spent $8-10 million for a Super Bowl ad that tells us how Excel is now AI enabled. That, after the company…
Microsoft’s pivotal AI product is running into big problems| Business News
Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the effort to build it up…
On-device AI is the way ahead: How India & Global South can bypass cost and connectivity hurdles
Developments in AI have a ring of supersized inevitability these days: models get bigger, demos get shinier, venture money gets maxed. Everything is about scale….
Paying more for OTT, PC ownership question and expensive memory| Business News
Opening thoughts. An email from JioHotstar landed in my mailbox this week. I was expecting the subscription to take an inflationary direction, neatly packaged behind…
OpenAI, Microsoft lose last chance to avoid a trial with Elon Musk| Business News
OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft failed to escape a trial over Elon Musk’s claims that Sam Altman’s startup betrayed its founding mission as a public charity…