The Rise of AI 29 July 2024 India’s star audio content company is going all in on AI. Will listeners tune in? Pocket FM is teaming up with U.S. text-to-speech app ElevenLabs to produce more shows for less time and money. By Ananya Bhattacharya
The Rise of AI 24 July 2024 The AI job interviewer will see you now AI interview services say they’re eliminating bias — but not everyone agrees. By Russell Brandom, Viola Zhou and Sanghamitra Kar P
The Rise of AI 17 July 2024 Bhutan’s first AI startup is seven college kids in a dorm NoMindBhutan services prominent clients like the Bhutan National Bank and Drukair - Royal Bhutan Airlines. By Lhakpa Quendren and Ananya Bhattacharya
The Rise of AI 15 July 2024 Meta is training its AI with public Instagram posts. Artists in Latin America can’t opt out Latin America lacks robust data protection laws that would allow Meta users in the region to prohibit the company from using their content. By Lucila Pinto
Features 9 July 2024 The AI artist who used Bad Bunny’s voice — and shot to fame Meet the Chilean artist who made it big using others’ voices. By Charis McGowan
3 Minutes With 18 June 2024 Using AI to build the “definitive” Spanish writing tool Abraham López is the CEO of Correcto, an AI-powered grammar tool. By Daniela Dib
The Rise of AI 13 June 2024 A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM Awarri has been tapped to help increase the representation of Nigerian languages in AI. By Damilare Dosunmu
The Rise of AI 11 June 2024 A new AI tool that accurately measures crowd sizes sheds light on protests roiling Brazil Former president Bolsonaro claimed 600,000 attended a rally for him, but researchers used the tool to prove it was less than a third of that. By Flávia Milhorance
Q & A 3 June 2024 What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s head of global policy Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends. By Russell Brandom
The Rise of AI 21 May 2024 Indonesia has more than 700 languages. Can AI save them? Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian firms are focusing on Bahasa Indonesia and other regional languages. By Adi Renaldi
Exporter Newsletter 16 May 2024 OpenAI is making a risky bet on live translation The company has a stunning demo — but can the product live up to the hype? By Russell Brandom
The Rise of AI 8 May 2024 Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance. By Nicholas Yong
