Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription

Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self ...
NJ.com

N.J. wins ‘ghost gun’ case. Appeals court says 3D printer code isn’t free speech.

A federal appeals court has backed the dismissal of a ghost gun company’s lawsuit against the State of New Jersey, which in 2018 banned the use of their software to make 3D-printed firearms. The ...
Reuters

Not all computer code protected as speech, US appeals court finds in ghost gun case

Court rules not all computer code is protected under First Amendment's free speech shield Gun website loses bid to revive lawsuit over ghost gun code Lawsuit followed New Jersey crackdown on ghost ...
Microsoft

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

According to the 2025 Microsoft AI Diffusion Report approximately one in six people globally had used a generative AI product. Yet for billions of people, the promise of voice interaction still falls ...
VentureBeat

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more ...
CNN

Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear of phone checks

These recent WhatsApp messages of a Venezuelan family – who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals – underscore the caution civilians are taking in their daily conversations, on social media ...
The Washington Post

Where ‘hate speech’ censorship is even worse than on U.S. campuses

Greg Lukianoff is president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the co-author, with Nadine Strossen, of “The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech — And Why ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
Business Wire

Deepgram Brings Low-Latency Speech Recognition and TTS to Amazon Connect

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deepgram, the world’s most realistic and real-time Voice AI platform, today announced integration of its enterprise-grade speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) ...
Fox News

Mysterious marijuana-linked vomiting disorder gets official WHO code as ER cases jump

A mysterious vomiting disorder tied to long-term marijuana use is now formally recognized by global health officials, a move experts say could help save lives as cases surge nationwide. The World ...
GitHub

Qwen3-Omni

We release Qwen3-Omni, the natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation models. It is designed to process diverse inputs including text, images, audio, and video, while delivering real-time ...