Block has developed a voice model that produces eerily human-like speech and can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max processor. The capability represents an advance in on-device voice synthesis technology.
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A SADC Parliamentary Forum and Equality Now policy brief finds that technology-facilitated gender-based violence remains poorly addressed in law across the 16 SADC member states, with only five countries clearly treating it as an offense. Lesotho adopted a Counter Domestic Violence Act in 2022 that addresses technological abuse
Twenty-eight-year-old Thabo Mphana has become the youngest golfer to win the Mohokare Golf Classic, Lesotho's most prestigious international golf tournament, held over the weekend at Maseru Golf Course and Ladybrand Golf Course. Mphana attributes his success to maintaining focus in a regionally competitive field and
A study comparing Grok and OpenAI's GPT found significant political bias in candidate recommendations, with Grok favoring Republican candidates and GPT favoring Democrats across nearly 500 election races. The two models disagreed on candidate recommendations in over 90% of the races tested. Source: TechCrunch
OpenAI announced it will stop training its frontier AI models on live internet data due to significant risks. The decision comes shortly after one of the company's engineers had publicly stated that disconnecting from live internet data would not be a viable solution. Source: TechCrunch