Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service

Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with par [...]

Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

Chatterbox Turbo, a new open-source text-to-speech model from Resemble AI, clones voices from five seconds of audio and generates speech in under 150 milliseconds. The startup claims it outperforms El [...]

Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

"We will be ready for them when they're ready to fly." [...]

For its next trick, Quantic Dream is trying to compete with League of Legends and Dota

It's been quite a while since we've heard much about Quantic Dream's Star Wars: Eclipse. The studio revealed that project at The Game Awards back in 2021 and details have been scarce si [...]

SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion on Starship and is racing to make rocketry resemble an airline schedule

SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its Starship megarocket and is pushing for a launch cadence that would make space access resemble an airline schedule rather than a government program [...]

Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent

The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent.Fin Operator [...]

Xbox Game Pass Retro Classics has over 50 old-school games for people over 50

Game Pass members can now play over 50 old-school games for free. Microsoft's Retro Classics is a library of old-school Activision and Blizzard games from the '80s and '90s, like Pitfal [...]

The Rise of AI-Powered Coding: Efficiency or a Cybersecurity Nightmare?

AI-powered coding tools are changing the software development paradigm. Platforms like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and ChatGPT have become essential for developers, helping them write code f [...]

The AI justice gap solution is slowly turning into an existential paperwork nightmare for US federal courts

A new study from MIT and the University of Southern California shows that lawsuits filed without a lawyer at US federal courts have nearly doubled since ChatGPT went mainstream. One in five complaints [...]