Microsoft hit by Russian hackers again 🛡️ // ElevenLabs' $80M unicorn status 🦄 // Realistic AI voices at TextReader.ai 🗣️

Microsoft was hit by another nation-state attack, this time by the same Russian group behind the SolarWinds attack. ElevenLabs, a startup that just landed $80 million in funding and achieved unicorn status, is making it easier than ever to replace human voice actors with AI-generated voices. TextReader.ai is a free text-to-speech generator with some of the most realistic AI voices. "Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Universe?" challenges our current ideas about the emergence of life and opens up new avenues for research. Contact:  [email protected] Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:25 Microsoft ‘senior leadership’ emails accessed by Russian SolarWinds hackers 03:18 Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs lands $80M, achieves unicorn status 05:29 Text Reader - Free text to speech generator with realistic AI voices 06:45 Fake sponsor 08:33 Spotting LLMs With Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text 10:10 Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Universe? 11:57 EmerDiff: Emerging Pixel-level Semantic Knowledge in Diffusion Models 13:45 Outro