Spotify now offers its listeners AI-narrated audiobooks
Spotify is teaming up with vocal AI startup ElevenLabs to bring digitally-narrated audiobooks to Findaway Voices. Source
Spotify is teaming up with vocal AI startup ElevenLabs to bring digitally-narrated audiobooks to Findaway Voices. Source
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Time (and perhaps a large check or two) heals all wounds. Amazon and the longtime producers and custodians of the James Bond movies have finally agreed on a way forward…
Amazon MGM Studios has entered into an agreement with long-time producuers and co-owners of the James Bond franchise, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, for Amazon to take creative control…
Inside Overland AI’s new factory in south Seattle. (Overland Photo) Seattle startup Overland AI is bringing manufacturing operations close to home with the opening of a 22,000 square-foot facility that will help…
The latest update to the GeekWire 200 reveals which companies are growing quickly and making moves up our list of top-ranked Pacific Northwest tech startups. Sales software company Highspot (No.…
A British R&D unit that’s been compared to DARPA is funding synthetic muscles, electronic skin, and mechanical hands for a robotics dexterity project. The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)…
Long-time producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have formed a new joint venture with Amazon MGM that will see them step back from creative control of the venerable spy-fi…
A trio of founders who built out one of the bigger startups in risk management are scaling a new company to take on another pain point in the world of…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed…
Pinch offers in-home medical-grade concierge aesthetics services such as tox, chemical peels and microneedling. (Pinch Photo) Pinch, a Chicago-based, tech-enabled service that facilitates in-home medical spa treatments, has expanded to…
Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web. Source
Shares in European aerospace and defence companies soared to record highs this week, elevating expectations for the continent’s military tech startups. Britain’s BAE Systems leapt by 9% on Monday, while…
As payment companies increasingly explore stablecoins for cross-border payments and real-time settlement, some startups are tapping into the zeitgeist by providing liquidity via a revolving line of credit in stablecoins.…
Recalls in the food and beverage industry due to contamination incidents can have catastrophic effects. Not only do companies have to pay fines and damages, but the impacts on the…
The excitement around the Humane AI Pin has faded. The company behind the $700 AI device has sold its assets to HP for $116 million, and some of the employees…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Codeium, an AI-powered coding startup, is raising a new round of funding at a $2.85 billion valuation, including fresh capital, according to two…