TechCrunch AI
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22 hours ago
A hacker breached Suno, an AI music generator, in November 2025 using a supply chain attack to access employee credentials and source code. The leaked code allegedly shows Suno scraped decades of audio from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, stock music libraries, and podcast RSS feeds to train its AI system. Record labels suing Suno argue the scraping violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and YouTube's terms of service, though Suno claims its training on publicly available content falls under fair use protections.
TechCrunch AI
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1 day ago
Rime, a voice AI startup founded in 2022, raised $24 million in Series A funding led by M13 Ventures to develop conversational AI systems for enterprise customer service calls. The company operates a recording studio in San Francisco to train models on proprietary conversational data and now focuses on speech-to-speech models with latency reductions rather than orchestrating multiple separate models. Rime plans to expand its 35-person team and aims to capture enterprise contracts from companies that currently rely on legacy interactive voice response systems.
Hugging Face Blog
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1 day ago
Hume AI released Real World VoiceEQ, a benchmark that evaluates voice AI systems on human-quality interactions beyond traditional metrics like word error rates and latency. The benchmark drew from over 1 million human ratings across 40+ voice models and 60+ metrics spanning speech recognition, synthesis, and understanding tasks. The findings show no single voice model excels across all capabilities, and current systems struggle to interpret emotional cues and acoustic information that humans naturally recognize in conversation.
