So many ethical concerns over AI voice cloning in general, reproducing a deceased person’s voice will always cause a stir, in this case, the filmmakers had the family’s permission.

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/02/24/gabby-petito-docuseries-netflix-ai-generated-voice

X is blocking links to Signal.me, a URL shortener for the secure messaging app Signal.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/17/x-is-blocking-links-to-signal-a-secure-messaging-platform-used-by-federal-workers

Despite its advancements, DeepSeek R1 lacks image generation, vision capabilities, and voice interaction modes, which are features that ChatGPT currently offers.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/calm-down-deepseek-r1-is-great-but-chatgpts-product-advantage-is-far-from-over/

Decentralized social network organization Mastodon said Monday that it is planning to create a new nonprofit organization in Europe and hand over

Source: TechCrunch

https://search.app/Z4zxnkaSX7DAMPfV8

Mistral released Codestral 25.01 today, marking a significant upgrade in AI code generation.

The new model features a more efficient architecture and improved tokenizer, it generates and completes code approximately 2 times faster than its predecessor, making it the leader in its weight class for coding tasks.

https://mistral.ai/news/codestral-2501/

Quantum computing stocks experienced a significant sell-off, with Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum shares dropping 20% each, while IonQ fell over 9%.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/13/quantum-computing-stocks-sell-off-accelerates-as-zuckerberg-becomes-latest-tech-ceo-to-temper-sector-enthusiasm.html