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Apple researchers figured out a way to speed up AI speech generation from text without sacrificing audio quality or breaking intelligibility.

Microsoft's February 2026 update delivers an expanded Cross Device Resume, improved voice tools, and QOL fixes.

OpenAI has invested an undisclosed amount in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface (BCI) startup backed by its own chief executive Sam Altman, adding another layer to the increasingly circular web of ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “I don’t care what you say about these quantum technologies,” the French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe told Berlin-based ...

Remington Bixby Hotchkis thinks fighting wildfires with water in California may be so yesterday. The ranching family scion with roots stretching back to the 19th century San Joaquin Ranch in Orange ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit Forest Neurotech, according to a source with direct knowledge of the ...

Forward-looking: When wildfires sweep through the dry hills outside Los Angeles, homes can be lost in moments. A California startup imagines a different outcome: as embers fall and nearby brush ...

(Bloomberg/Rachel Metz) — A two-month-old startup from the former head of artificial intelligence at Databricks Inc. has raised a seed round of funding from investors at a valuation of $4.5 billion ...

Software firm Horizon Quantum claimed it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore. The deployment also makes it the first quantum software company to deploy ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Nov 5, 2025 at ...