Eleven Labs raises $2 million to keep building its text-to-speech AI
They’re betting that AI generated voices are the future of audio.
CNET’s AI experiment isn’t going well
The tech news site stopped publishing AI generated articles after several inaccuracies.
Stability AI is being sued by Getty Images
Getty says Stable Diffusion “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright.”
People are using AI to imagine movies that were never made
What would happen if Alejandro Jodorowsky made ‘Tron’?
Personalities
Chan Karunamuni designs new iPhone interfaces
His work on the Dynamic Island leverages Apple’s unique integration of software and hardware.
Marc Andreessen is effective at accelerating ideas
The venture capitalist has been on the cutting-edge of tech since co-founding Netscape in 1994.
Naval Ravikant is famous for his philosophies about wealth
“All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”
Bryan Johnson wants to live forever
The “most measured man in human history” is spending his fortune in an effort in pursuit of a clear mission: don’t die.
roon is every AI enthusiast’s favorite anon
The pseudonymous “prolific shitposter” was the driving force behind the wordcels vs. shape rotators meme.
Jules Terpak brings a gen-z mindset to tech commentary
One of the few pundits who actually seems to understand how human beings use the internet.
Ben Thompson is equal parts analyst & entrepreneur
Plus, he developed Aggregation Theory: a spiritual successor to Clay Christensen’s Theory of Disruptive Innovation.
John Gruber set the standards for independent publishing
He’s also the creator of Markdown, a ubiquitous coding language that simplifies formatting text for the internet.
Patterns
Ancient Roman myths and AI girlfriends
Apps like Replika and Character.AI are continuing a 2,000-year-old trend of artificial companionship.
What happened to CNET?
It’s still the same website... but it’s not the same website.
After AI Drake songs, nothing was the same
Record labels are cracking down on AI generated music.
AI memes are going mainstream
AI generated “by Balenciaga” videos are taking the internet by storm — so I made one myself. Let’s see Paul Allen’s meme.
Sydney, Spotify, and Speedy
Comparing three very different interpretations of artificial intelligence.
People are using AI to imagine movies that were never made
What would happen if Alejandro Jodorowsky made ‘Tron’?
Indistinguishable from magic
Magic is a fun and pragmatic lens for understanding generative AI — cast a spell and conjure content.
Say goodbye to robotic computer voices
The latest text-to-speech model from Eleven Labs can convincingly imitate emotions in speech — including laughter.
An AI generated these portraits of me
The photo editor app Lensa dropped an AI selfie generator, and the results are truly impressive. But there’s a dark side.
OpenAI invested $100mm in these four startups. Why?
What Descript, Harvey, Mem, and Speak each mean for OpenAI’s vision of the future of AI.
Thinking about thinking
How can computers help us be better at remembering things — without having to wear a camera on our face?
Typetura is typesetting for the 21st century
A primer on the future of typography, typesetting, and why details matter.
On Mirror, digital publishing meets cryptocurrency
This invitation-only, blockchain-based publishing platform is enabling new business models for writers by giving power to the people.
Get paid for seeing ads with Basic Attention Token
Basic Attention Token is a cryptocurrency that's about more than just about the money — it's also about where the money goes.
How I roll my own custom newsfeed with Feedbin
Email newsletters are experiencing a renaissance in 2021, but there's one problem: I don't like email! So I use Feedbin, which lets me read email newsletters in RSS reading apps.
Everything Chrome can do, Brave can do better
Brave makes surfing the internet fun again. It's time to ditch Google Chrome.
NFTs are Redefining the Internet's Idea of Art and Value
Art was seemingly left behind during the internet revolution — but Non-Fungible Tokens are here to change that. What Bitcoin is to currency, NFTs are for collecting.