AI & RoboticsNews

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI. The new model, called Voxtral TTS, supports nine…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

AOTOS’ new Flux X26 e-bike mixes smart tech, torque, and a wild design

If you’ve ever wished your daily commute felt less like a chore and more like, well, an experience, AOTOS thinks it has the answer. The smart mobility company is launching its new Flux X26 e-bike on Kickstarter this month, and it’s not your typical e-bike. This one leans hard into futuristic design, smart tech, and even a one-click wheelie feature. Let’s take a closer look. A rugged unique…
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DefenseNews

Europe can’t rely on US for air-defense missiles, top EU official says

PARIS — Europe can’t rely on the United States to supply the continent with sufficient quantities of air-defense missiles, and needs to step up local production of interceptors, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said at the Paris Defense and Strategy Forum on Tuesday. Kubilius is on a “missile tour” of Europe to discuss with manufacturers how the European…
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ComputersNews

CPU shortages loom as PC makers scramble for chips

RAM, storage, graphics cards. All of them are getting harder to find, and, of course, more expensive as the “AI” bubble gobbles up manufacturing capacity. According to a new industry report, processors are next in line. Lead times for CPUs are now stretching out to…
ComputersNews

Samsung Browser comes to Windows: I tried it so you don’t have to

If you’re looking for a new browser to try out, you aren’t hurting for options. But a popular dark horse choice on Android is Samsung’s own browser, which started as a humble branding exercise but became a pretty solid alternative to Chrome over the last decade. After months of testing, it’s now available as a full Windows release. Like most options out there, Samsung Browser is based on…
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