Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

AI voice has crossed the mainstream threshold. 97% of enterprises already use it in some form, with 84% planning to increase investment. It's in games, contact centers, e-learning, and customer-facing ...

PCWorld’s reporter tested Sesame’s new AI voice app and found it delivers the most human-like conversational experience available, using Google’s Gemma 4 LLM and custom speech models. The app performs ...

A California mom says she was scammed out of thousands of dollars this month after receiving a call that sounded like her daughter in distress. She now suspects it was an artificial ...

India’s internet users already rely heavily on voice notes, voice search, and multilingual messaging. Turning those habits into a scalable AI business, however, remains difficult because of the ...

Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications for two voice clips and one image that a trademark attorney says are “specifically designed” to protect the pop superstar from threats posed by ...

Taylor Swift has taken a new legal step seemingly aimed at protecting her identity in the age of AI — following in the footsteps of actor Matthew McConaughey. On Friday, April 24, Swift’s company ...

After an all-star group of artists battled it out on "The Voice," one champion – and their coach – has been crowned the winner. Alexia Jayy, 31, took home the win in "The Voice: Battle of the ...

For years, businesses have hidden contact numbers deep within website menus, steering frustrated consumers towards text-based chatbots, frequently asked questions and email forms to cut costs. Now, ...

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform.

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

AI startup ElevenLabs announced it had raised $500 million at an $11 billion valuation. The round more than triples the valuation the London-based company picked up when it raised in January 2025.