Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in ...
Deadline.com

Harrison Ford’s Earnest Actor Awards Speech Honors Craft: “We Share The Privilege Of Working In The World Of Ideas, Of Empathy, Of Imagination”

Only Harrison Ford could so effortlessly toggle between pulling on audience heartstrings and cracking whip-smart jokes. In his acceptance speech for this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award from ...
The Hill

Trump says State of the Union will be ‘long speech’: What’s the record?

President Trump said Tuesday’s State of the Union address will be a “long speech,” leaving room for the president to set a new record while also reasserting his administration’s accomplishments ahead ...
Time

What We Learned From Marco Rubio’s Foreign Policy Speech to European Leaders

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States wants to ...
Los Angeles Times

Free speech is valuable, but only when it leads us toward the truth

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Wednesday evening, I attended the third annual RealClear Samizdat Prize Gala in Palm Beach, Fla. RealClear, ...
Us Weekly

What Did Billie Eilish Say During Her Acceptance Speech at the 2026 Grammy Awards? What Was Bleeped Out

Billie Eilish took home the prize for Song of the Year at the 2026 Grammy Awards — and the hitmaker didn’t hold back in her impassioned acceptance speech. “Thank you so much. I can’t believe this,” ...
The New York Times

Why Campuses Are Still Failing at Free Speech

Re “Harvard’s Anti-Woke Era Is Stifling,” by Alex Bronzini-Vender (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 5): Long before President Trump’s second term, there was a conflict about the limits of free speech. And it ...
News Medical

Wearable AI device turns silent throat signals into fluent speech for stroke patients

Neurological diseases, including stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson’s disease, often cause dysarthria, which is a debilitating motor-speech disorder that disrupts neuromuscular ...
CNN

Five takeaways from Trump’s antagonistic speech in Davos

President Donald Trump’s winding, antagonistic speech to business moguls and government officials in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday was hardly a salve to concerns the Western Alliance is at its breaking ...
The Washington Post

In Europe, hate speech isn’t free speech. Some in D.C. hate that.

LONDON — President Donald Trump claimed that Europeans are losing their “wonderful right of freedom of speech.” Elon Musk told a far-right rally in London that Britons are “scared to exercise their ...