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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
😴 Google's New Fitbit Air Plays Pokémon Sleep
💥 Anthropic Won Against Trump's Pentagon Blacklist
⚠️ OpenAI Anthropic and 126 Giants Sign an Urgent Cyber Warning
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create a custom voice from a text prompt
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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Anthropic would like its models to get out more. The lab unveiled the Model Hardware Standard, a spec meant to let AI agents operate physical machines rather than just browsers and spreadsheets. It is out as a research preview for now, and Anthropic says it plans to open source it later... which is one way to make your protocol the default.
Google has found the one workout you are already doing: sleeping. It announced a special-edition Fitbit Air that syncs with Pokémon Sleep, the 2023 game where resting on schedule builds your Snorlax's 'Drowsy Power' and lures more Pokémon. The band tracks movement, heart rate and cardio load by day, then sleep duration and quality overnight. Pokémon turns 30 this year.
The Pentagon retaliated against Anthropic for protected speech and violated its due process rights, according to the 59-page order a San Francisco federal judge issued yesterday evening. The order calls the measures imposed on the company illegal and baseless and says officials wanted to make a public example of it.
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AI Tutorial
How to create a custom voice from a text prompt
Go to the ElevenLabs website and sign in.
Go to the "Voices" section.
Click on "Create Voice" and select "Voice Design." (You can also pick the other options if you want to clone your voice or remix an existing one.)
Provide a detailed description of the voice, including age, accent, gender, style, etc.
Preview three AI-generated versions, choose your favorite, assign it a name, and save it. You can then go to "Text to Speech" to generate audio with your new voice.
*Note: You can check ElevenLabs' "Voice Design Prompt Guide" for help in creating the exact voice you want.
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🎧 Plaud's new earphones ship with an eSIM-enabled case built for talking to AI agents.
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