ChatGPT might actually be worth talking to now
AI voice modes are so bad that I typically don’t bother. Up to now, the voice modes for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have had to take turns as they listen and talk, making for herky-jerky…
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Interview: Talking laptops and GPUs with Framework’s CEO
Framework is, if you ask me, making the coolest laptops (and now desktops) on the market. The company is now several generations into its completely modular, upgradeable PC designs, available in 12-, 13-, and 16-inch…
Talking to Copilot is the future of Windows PCs? I don’t think so
Imagine yourself at work in a busy office. Colleagues chatter away. Your boss approaches your desk, as you’re asking a question of Copilot: How do I win the Northwind account? They notice, turn, and give…
Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude can now choose to stop talking to you
Anthropic has introduced a new feature in its Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models that allows the AI to choose to end certain conversations. According to the company, this only happens in particularly serious or…
Forget YouTuber voice. People are talking like ChatGPT now, research finds
A group of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have analyzed 280,000 academic YouTube videos and reached an interesting conclusion. It turns out that the use of certain English words…
How to stop your Roku player from talking
Has your Roku player or Roku TV started talking whenever you’re in a menu or on a settings screen? There’s a simple explanation for a suddenly chatty Roku, as well as an easy way to…
FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking.
Fortinet, a maker of network security software, has kept a critical vulnerability under wraps for more than a week amid reports that attackers are using it to execute malicious code on servers used by sensitive…
Talking to ChatGPT for the first time is a surreal experience
Enlarge / Putting the “chat” in ChatGPT Getty Images In May, when OpenAI first demonstrated ChatGPT-4o’s coming audio conversation capabilities, I wrote that it felt like we were “on the verge of something… like a…