The current version, OpenJDK 25, was released in the fall of 2025, with many vendors offering Long-Term Support (LTS). Many companies use such releases as a stability anchor for migrations and ...

Kokoro 82M is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that beats many TTS APIs while running locally on CPUs, including Apple Silicon ...

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, extending its model family into speech generation and enabling end-to-end voice workflows.

Cohere's open-weight ASR model Transcribe tops the Hugging Face leaderboard with a 5.42% word error rate, outperforming ...

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in the fast-growing voice AI market.

Open source TTS models Kokoro, Orpheus, and Piper are tested on symbols, abbreviations, and prosody with CER and MOS results.

The story behind Michael Moore’s controversial 2003 Oscars speech. On March 23, 2003, Hollywood stars filed into the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles for a fraught Academy Awards ceremony. Several days ...

A federal complaint alleged a first grader in California was punished for giving a "Black Lives Matter" drawing to an African American classmate in 2021. A court ruled in favor of the school district, ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates, and is likely to do so again, to make sure the unemployment rate doesn't rise much further. But that's not to say many senior leaders of the central bank have a ...

BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that Americans are struggling with massive price hikes that he blamed on Vice President Kamala Harris, looking to saddle his new ...

The supposed threat to free speech in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe has been taken up by allies of President Donald Trump including Vice President JD Vance, who claimed in February that “basic ...