Katie Parrott in Source Code Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Four OpenAI engineers built the Android version of the image generation app Sora in 28 days.

Speakr is a self-hosted Docker-based tool that converts spoken audio to text. It provides automatic speech recognition (ASR) ...

Microsoft has made classic text adventures Zork and its sequels open source. The original trilogy (which is actually one huge game that developer Infocom split into three parts) is now available under ...

Tom Cruise was presented with an Academy Honorary Award during the Nov. 16 Governors Awards, and it’s no surprise that the larger-than-life movie star had a blockbuster acceptance speech. The award ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

Update, November 8, 9:46 a.m. ET: The GitHub repository and its forks have been taken down. The original story follows below. Just hours after Apple launched a revamped web interface for the App Store ...

Seven months after it was approved by the Board of Regents, a University of Minnesota resolution on institutional speech that was implemented amid campus turmoil over the war in Gaza continues to draw ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed US military leaders to verify that every member of the department watched the speech he delivered at an unusual gathering of senior officers in Quantico, ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon would crack down on physical standards for military members during remarks at an unusual gathering of military brass in Quantico, Virginia, also attacking ...

During his speech to the U.N., Israel’s prime minister sought to focus attention on the carnage of the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel that led to the war in Gaza. By Ephrat Livni Prime Minister ...