Author: TechBrunch

ChatGpt's conversation voice mode has been upgraded. Over the weekend, Openai deployed an update to Advanced Voice. This is a feature that allows users to interact loudly with ChatGpt. The company has now heard ChatGpt's voices sound more natural and fluid with “subtle intonation,” “realistic rhythms” (including pauses and emphasis), and “on-point representationality” for emotions like empathy and irony. Audio mode also makes it easier for users to translate languages. When you ask ChatGpt to interpret it, it will continue to translate the conversation until you tell them to stop or switch to another language. This feature is available to…

Impact Investor and Advisor Christian Tooley raised a brief question to an audience at SXSW London last week. What if investors put aside social prudence for profit? Tooley was primarily referring to subclauses. This is a limitation in which partners place investments on Guardrail in venture companies. These no-sectors often include products that deal with substances such as gender, psychedelics, gambling, and tobacco, and such restrictions are usually imposed by large institutional investors who don't want to invest in products that are controversial at best and at worst are potentially harmful. Tooley feels that investors are missing out on innovation…

As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have emerged, including a potential new name for the operating system, a dedicated gaming app, and a virtual health coach. This could be a major update, including a dramatic redesign design inspired by Vision Pro. Here is a summary of the most notable features rumored to come to iOS 19. New name Sources told Bloomberg that Apple plans to change the name of the operating system to reflect the year of release, rather than using version numbers. This means that iOS 19 will be renamed iOS…

According to Bloomberg, Meta is debating billions of dollars in scale AI investments. In fact, the transaction value could be reported to be over $10 billion, making it one of the biggest external AI investments by Facebook's parent company and the largest fundraising event ever for a private company. Scale AI (Chapter Alexandr Wang depicted above) provides data labeling services to companies such as Microsoft and Openai, helping to train AI models. Much of that labeling work is carried out by contractors. In fact, the Ministry of Labor recently stopped investigating whether the company misclassifies employees. According to Bloomberg, the…

Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 2025, starts at 10am Pt/1 PM ET. Monday. Last year's event was notable for its focus on AI, and this year it puts considerable pressure on developers to compensate as it has made promises to the company, lagging behind AI and facing legal challenges for the App Store. As in the past few years, the company is focusing on software updates and new technologies that are rumoured to have the most significant design changes since the introduction of iOS 7. Here's how to watch the live stream of the keynote speech: iOS has received the…

Starting Monday, Apple will be holding the 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, with keynote speech scheduled for Monday at 10am (Pt/1 PM ET). The company plans to announce changes to its operating system, iOS, iPados, MacOS, Watchos, TVOS and Visionos. We are also looking forward to a dedicated gaming app and new AirPod features. This also gives Apple an opportunity to compensate with developers. You can watch keynotes and subsequent sessions via Apple's Events page, or access Apple's YouTube channel to watch. Alternatively, you can bookmark this page and view the keynote through the embed below. The company plans to overhaul…

Last year there was obvious excitement about Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). The company is about to unveil AI capabilities, and the high-tech world is hoping to unveil an AI platform that can compete with Google and Openai. The demos that Apple showed at the time were persuasive, but the follow-through was overwhelming, and both developers and consumers wanted more. Aph's broader struggle with AI has become more clear over the past year. Personalized intelligence ambitions faced delays, and new tools were unconsistent. Apple's vision for sale in 2024 – seamless blend of on-device AI, improved Siri interactions, and powerful…

As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have emerged, including a potential new name for the operating system, a dedicated gaming app, and a virtual health coach. This could be a major update, including a dramatic redesign design inspired by Vision Pro. Here is a summary of the most notable features rumored to come to iOS 19. New name Sources told Bloomberg that Apple plans to change the name of the operating system to reflect the year of release, rather than using version numbers. This means that iOS 19 will be renamed iOS…

President Donald Trump will sign the executive order on Friday, rolling back with amendments to the cybersecurity policy set up by his democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In the White House fact sheet, the administration argues that Biden's executive order 14144 was signed a few days before the presidency ended – “an attempt to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy. Among other things, Biden's order encouraged agents to “consider accepting digital identity documents” if an ID is required for a public interest program. Trump has hit that part of the order, and the White House now…

Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 2025, starts at 10am Pt/1 PM ET. Monday. Last year's event was notable for its focus on AI, and this year it puts considerable pressure on companies to build on promises and change the narrative after most of the negative headlines of months. As in the past few years, the company is focusing on software updates and new technologies that are rumoured to have the most significant design changes since the introduction of iOS 7. Here's how to watch the live stream of the keynote speech: iOS has received the most dramatic design changes for…