News app Artifact adds AI text-to-speech voices, including Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow

July 27, 2023
Personalized news app Artifact, developed by Instagram’s founders, is adding another new AI-powered feature today. The company is launching an AI-powered text-to-speech feature in partnership with Speechify that will allow Artifact users to listen to news articles read aloud. The feature won’t just offer a robotic-sounding voice as some other text-to-speech engines provide, but will […]

The ad market is recovering

July 27, 2023
New data from a number of tech businesses indicates that the ad market is recovering, partly due to AI.

Tesla has a range inflation problem

July 27, 2023
Tesla exaggerated the range estimates for its EVs for years, prompting owners to flood its service center over concerns that their vehicles needed service, according to a new detailed Reuters report. The investigation, citing anonymous sources and industry experts, found that the directive to use algorithms to give rosier range numbers came from CEO Elon […]

A high-tech third eye for neurosurgeons, Proprio could change the OR forever

July 27, 2023
Surgeries of all kinds have become more and more powerfully assisted by technology, but in most cases it’s still a human holding the scalpel — especially for delicate and complex operations like spinal surgery. Proprio’s technology reinvents the way surgeons see, understand, and influence the contours of bone and tissue, improving outcomes and potentially saving […]