BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Synthetic influencers represent a thrilling yet precarious frontier where innovation collides with sentiment and regulation.

There’s a lot of money in voice cloning. Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, today announced that it closed an $80 million Series B ...

Overview: Synthetic media is now influencing equities, trading sentiment, and corporate credibility through manipulated ...

In a potentially dangerous development for scam calls, AI-generated voices are now "indistinguishable" from real human voices, researchers say. Sebastian Gollnow/dpa Tests carried out in London have ...

Pilot programs on Spotify and iHeartMedia currently allow select podcasters — including Bill Simmons, Malcolm Gladwell and ...

AI-generated voices now mimic humans so convincingly that detection is nearly impossible Creating a convincing voice clone now takes minutes and minimal expertise Some synthetic voices were actually ...

Several fertility doctors around the world maintain they are planning to clone a human baby. For a time late last year, it seemed possible that human cloning had been accomplished. On Dec. 27, 2002, ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...