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OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool
OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool
Technology
by  AFP

OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners. A model called "Voice Engine" can essentially duplicate someone's speech based on a 15-second audio sample, according to an OpenAI blog post sharing results of a small-scale test of the tool.

US Fed's inflation fight remains on track despite recent uptick: Powell
US Fed's inflation fight remains on track despite recent uptick: Powell
Economy
by  AFP

The recent rise in US inflation hasn't stalled the Federal Reserve's ongoing fight against rising prices, Fed chair Jerome Powell said Friday, shortly after the publication of fresh government data. He said that while the recent inflation data were higher than the Fed would have liked, the February figures were "definitely more along the lines of what we want to see."