If you had an 8-bit computer in the 1980s and bought a speech synthesiser for it, what you got was invariably an alophone-based synthesiser using the SP0256 or similar. You definitely ...

A new AI assistant is rocketing across Silicon Valley. Months after OpenClaw, the viral AI-powered assistant, captured the attention of the technology industry, a company called Instinct appears to be ...

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You walk in a park. Children are playing, people are walking their dogs, and then you hear someone: “Who’s my little sweetie?” You turn around expecting to see a pram. But someone is sitting beside a ...

August 7, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google We may earn a commission from links on this page. The switch from Assistant has been coming for a while; it’s a ...

An Android user interacts with Google Assistant on a phone. Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Google Assistant begins shutting down Sept. 4 as eligible Android devices move to Gemini. Here is ...

Google Assistant’s days have been numbered for a while, but the company has now settled on a date to retire its pre-AI assistant robot. In an email being sent out to users, Google confirms that ...

After 15 years on the air, "The Voice" has recruited a new star. The NBC competition show announced on Tuesday, Aug. 4, that its 31st season will feature celebrities not only in its coaching panel but ...

Over the past few years, the term “weaponized incompetence” has blown up in dating discourse online. It’s used to describe someone—most often the guy, when it comes to heterosexual relationships—who ...

An upgrade transformed the beleaguered virtual assistant into a modern chatbot. It’s imperfect but worth trying. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the ...

Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is making its move to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The ...