Inside Microsoft’s quest to make Windows 11’s AI irresistible

Executives with a combined 130+ years of tenure on the company’s decades of work to get people to talk to their PCs—and why ...
Slator

Uni and Startup Explore How to Preserve Voice, Emotion in AI Speech Translation

HKUST and Soul AI researchers unveil a system that preserves the speaker’s voice, tone, and emotion in AI live speech ...
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 ...
Al-Monitor

In UN speech, Trump slams allies’ Palestine recognition as 'reward' to Hamas

NEW YORK CITY — President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to press for the release of hostages held by Hamas and condemn the flurry of US allies that recognized ...
The New York Times

Everyone’s a Free-Speech Hypocrite

Mr. Lukianoff is the president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. If you’re a free-speech lawyer, you face a choice: Either expect to be disappointed by people ...
Reuters

Reactions to growing recognition of a Palestinian state

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Several world leaders are expected to formally recognise a Palestinian state on Monday at a summit in New York convened by France and Saudi Arabia, a move Israel says will ...
Des Moines Register

Obama condemns Charlie Kirk's killing, says tragedy being used to 'silence discussion'

Former President Barack Obama condemned the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a horrific tragedy in a speech Tuesday, Sept. 16. Obama appeared as part of the Jefferson Educational ...
Santa Monica Daily Press

Santa Monica Council Approves Controversial Building Code Changes Despite Safety Concerns

The Santa Monica City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to approve two significant changes to the city's building codes, raising the threshold for high-rise buildings from 55 to 75 feet and allowing ...
PC World

Microsoft’s Copilot AI text-to-speech gets new, cleaner ‘scripted mode’

Microsoft’s AI Manager Mustafa Suleyman recently unveiled in a social media post a new feature called “Scripted Mode” in Copilot Labs for turning written scripts into text-to-speech. Copilot Labs is ...
TechCrunch

Roblox announces short-form video feed for gameplay clips, new AI tools for creators, and more

Online gaming platform Roblox is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed for sharing gameplay moments, the company unveiled on Friday at the Roblox Developers Conference. The company also ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...