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Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents

Article URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031109 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

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Technology May 6, 2026

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

Article URL: https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 6, 2026

Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch

The Silicon Valley AV startup has not started driverless testing yet.

Technology May 5, 2026

SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw

SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to ...

Technology May 5, 2026

‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk

OpenAI’s president wrapped his testimony on Tuesday by revealing a fiery meeting with Musk and subsequent efforts to r...

Technology May 5, 2026

Bumble’s paying users are slipping as it bets on an overhaul later this year

The company is making a big bet that the swiping model is outdated and most matches never turn into actual dates. The co...

Technology May 5, 2026

Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and lega...

Technology May 5, 2026

Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership

Article URL: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/xbox-ceo-ends-copilot-ai-development-overhauls-leadership-3361353/ Comments...

Technology May 5, 2026

Lucid Motors doesn’t know how many EVs it will build this year

Lucid Motors pulled its guidance for the year, as it navigates swelling inventory and a companywide cost-cutting measure...

Technology May 5, 2026

OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury

Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission. ...

Technology May 5, 2026

Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-publishers-lawsuit-llama-5609846d4d840014974a847b01079c...

Technology May 5, 2026

NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807918/polymarket-panama-prediction-market Comments URL: https://new...

Technology May 5, 2026

Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single c...

Technology May 5, 2026

A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF

Article URL: https://sfcrime.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029034 Points: 10 # Commen...

Technology May 5, 2026

Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean

Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026. ...

Technology May 5, 2026

Write some software, give it away for free

Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology May 5, 2026

Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the ...

Technology May 5, 2026

As crypto cools, a16zcrypto raises a $2.2B fund

As some of the biggest VCs in crypto start to consider funding AI startups, a16zcrypto's new fund will stay the course.

Technology May 5, 2026

Telehealth Abortion Is Still Possible Without Mifepristone

Courts may restrict access to the popular abortion medication mifepristone in the United States. Telehealth providers ha...

Technology May 5, 2026

Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped

Article URL: https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology May 5, 2026

Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license

State says chatbot claimed to practice medicine, gave invalid license number. ...

Technology May 5, 2026

Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models

With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they ...

Technology May 5, 2026

Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

Article URL: https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028289 P...

Technology May 5, 2026

Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/apple-mac-studio-mac-mini-ram-cuts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology May 5, 2026

.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?

Article URL: https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/nic.de Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802789...

Technology May 5, 2026

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet: No one is coming for us

Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on ...

Technology May 5, 2026

Volkswagen becomes Rivian’s top shareholder, displacing Amazon

VW Group's stake will continue to grow under the $5.8 billion joint venture with Rivian.

Technology May 5, 2026

Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI

Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma ann...

Technology May 5, 2026

Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack

Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat. ...

Technology May 5, 2026

Apple could let you pick a favorite AI model in iOS 27

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Inte...