Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users and then shared their private conversations with ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

While you can do some good data analysis with a spreadsheet like Excel, if you want to take your calculations to the next level, you might try Python in a Jupyter notebook instead. Here are some ...

Home Assistant is by far the strongest of all the smart home platforms, but even the best solutions have room for improvement. Though I’ll continue to recommend Home Assistant to everyone and anyone ...

What if you could replicate any voice, yes, any voice—with just a few audio samples? In this overview, Sam Witteveen explores how the Qwen 3 TTS AI model has shattered barriers in voice cloning and ...

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LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced the raise of $100 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation. The round, which comes 10 ...

Interest in Clawdbot, an open-source AI personal assistant, has been building from a simmer to a roar. Over the weekend, online chatter about the tool reached viral status — at least, as viral as an ...

The voice-controlled, transforming robot is an objectively cool toy, but a little less than meets the eye in the sound department. Reading time 8 minutes Whenever I see a toy robot, I feel like a kid ...

Super Bowl LX saw the Seattle Seahawks defeat New England Patriots in Santa Clara, CA on February 8. The game had plenty of storylines — the post-Brady/Belichick Patriots trying to make their mark; ...

The latest wave of AI excitement has brought us an unexpected mascot: a lobster. Clawdbot, a personal AI assistant, went viral within weeks of its launch and will keep its crustacean theme despite ...

Google DeepMind is hiring the CEO and several top engineers from Hume AI, a startup working on emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, as part of a new licensing agreement, WIRED has learned.