Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription |

6:30 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech…

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation |

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…

A little-known Croatian startup is coming for the robotaxi market with help from Uber |

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…

Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns |

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing a novel called “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.…

It’s been 20 years since the first tweet |

In Brief Posted: 1:30 PM PDT · March 21, 2026 On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”.…

Why Wall Street wasn't won over by Nvidia's big conference |

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for his annual GTC keynote on Monday, the $4 trillion company’s stock started to drop. Wall Street…

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business? |

This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley bounced into the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is straightforward enough —…

Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla |

In Brief Posted: 9:20 AM PDT · March 22, 2026 Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration between his companies Tesla and…

How fusion power works and the startups pursuing it |

For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity here on Earth. And for nearly as long, achieving that…

Do you want to build a robot snowman? |

Nvidia’s GTC conference had everything: trillion-dollar sales projections, graphics technology that can yassify video games, grand declarations that every company needs an OpenClaw strategy, and…