WASHINGTON, DC — The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee begins May 27. And, the organization has said it is dialing back its reliance on the high-pressure tiebreaker round known as the “spell-off,” ...

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OpenAI has rolled out a new record mode feature for ChatGPT on macOS, allowing paid users to record and transcribe audio directly in the desktop app. Announced in early June in an update video, ...

As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines. French AI startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with its first open model, aiming to ...

Stephen Hawking, a British physicist and arguably the most famous man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), communicated with the world using a sensor installed in his glasses. That ...

Confident about your local knowledge? You can test your Brooklyn-specific skills with a spelling bee at the Center for Brooklyn History. The inaugural event on Tuesday, July 1 will quiz attendees on ...

Google begins experimenting with Audio Overviews in search results. US searchers can opt in to the experiment via Search Labs. Google's new Audio Overviews feature creates AI-generated audio summaries ...

And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. If you weren't playing along at home, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real ...