AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model, now generally available. The AssemblyAI-TTS-1 text-to-speech API targets voice agents running on live phone calls. In that setting, latency and pronunciation decide whether a caller stays on the line. Pricing is $15 per 1M characters, with no annual contract and no concurrency tier to buy. For developers…
Binance has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is dealing with a security incident as users reported that funds were being drained from the crypto exchange’s wallets. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange said in an emailed statement to TechCrunch that it is “aware of reports of a potential security issue and are actively investigating.” “Rest assured…
Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B model from its in-house research lab, Base Labs. The joey-1 decision model returns a label and a calibrated probability instead of generated text. It targets high-volume routing, classification and guardrail checks. Baseten prices it at $0.01 per million input tokens, with open weights on Hugging Face under MIT. TL;DR…
“The code could operate completely normally in NIPR and do something malicious and undisclosed in a SIPR network, that is 100 percent possible,” says Williams. Exfiltrating data out of these networks would be difficult, he adds, but malicious code could be used to attack the systems from the inside. “I think the most likely thing…
Prime Intellect has released Prime Mega MoE, a training extension of DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. DeepSeek’s kernel only ran the forward pass. Prime Intellect added a fast, overlapping backward pass. That makes the fused kernel usable for training, not just inference. In its prime-rl trainer, full training steps on Qwen3 MoE models run up…
Apps in the consumer voice AI world seem to be converging, as Granola, known for its meeting notetaker, launched a dictation feature today. This comes months after Wispr, known for its dictation tool, launched a meeting notetaker. Granola’s dictation currently works on Mac just like any other such tool. Users can press the “Fn” key…
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud firm that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, anonymous sources told the New York Times. The executive, Alice Huang (or Huang Le), worked for Megaspeed and was photographed as one of multiple people hanging out with Nvidia…
Andy Alder and Arjun Mather were Stanford roommates who both studied computer science before spending a decade at Palantir. Alder led product design for a team of 800 people building software for U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, while Mather served as a senior vice president in the company’s commercial practice. When the friends decided to…
Earlier this year, Apple’s security team said that some of the issues formal verification uncovered in its “corecrypto” library, which is used for encryption, could not have been found any other way. But the company added that it has to be “conservative” when adding new code to corecrypto to ensure it can keep pace with…
A few weeks ago, French company Mistral released an early version of its new artificial intelligence model, nicknamed Le Chonk. At the time, the company said it was the most advanced open-weight offering outside of China. After further refinement, Mistral now says Le Chonk is the “world’s best” open-weight model for automated coding and cybersecurity….
