Tue. 01/10 – Now We Have VALL-E To Take Over My Podcast Voice

Well, now there’s VALL-E, a text to speech technology that could fully replace me as this podcast narrator. It looks like Microsoft wants to do everything just short of buying OpenAI entirely. More layoffs at Coinbase. Why the whole 5G interfering with airplanes thing still isn’t resolved. And not everything that says it’s ChatGPT, is really ChatGPT.
Well, now there’s VALL-E, a text to speech technology that could fully replace me as this podcast narrator. It looks like Microsoft wants to do everything just short of buying OpenAI entirely. More layoffs at Coinbase. Why the whole 5G interfering with airplanes thing still isn’t resolved. And not everything that says it’s ChatGPT, is really ChatGPT.
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- Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio (ArsTechnica)
- Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT (Semafor)
- Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in U.S. on Jan. 31 (TechCrunch)
- Coinbase to slash 20% of workforce in second major round of job cuts (CNBC)
- FAA giving airlines another year to fix altimeters that can’t handle 5G signals (Ars Technica)
- Sketchy ChatGPT App Soars Up App Store Charts, Charges $7.99 Weekly Subscription (MacRumors)
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