Nvidia is paying a reported $20 billion for Groq's chip technology and top engineers. The deal addresses memory costs, inference competition, and the rise of AI agents all at once.

China wants to crack down on emotionally manipulative AI chatbots. Under proposed rules, providers would have to detect addictive behavior and step in when users show psychological warning signs. California is taking similar steps after tragic stories linked to AI companions.

OpenAI is looking for a new "Head of Preparedness." The challenges are daunting: AI's impact on mental health, cybersecurity risks, biological knowledge leaks, and self-improving systems.

Filtering a dog bark from street noise or isolating a sound source with a single click on a video: Meta's SAM Audio brings the company's visual segmentation approach to the audio world. The model lets users edit audio using text commands, clicks, or time markers. Code and weights are open source.

Chatterbox Turbo, a new open-source text-to-speech model from Resemble AI, clones voices from five seconds of audio and generates speech in under 150 milliseconds. The startup claims it outperforms Elevenlabs.