is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. It’s certainly getting quicker and easier to make AI-generated fakes, but the more convincing they are, the ...

Toronto startup Wombo has raised $6 million from investors such as Ashton Kutcher. CEO Ben-Zion Benkhin was so confident in Wombo that he dropped out of school to launch the startup. Wombo's ...

Digital lip-syncing aimed at teens is officially a big, big business: Chinese tech company Bytedance has announced it plans to "merge" with — acquire — Musical.ly, a popular lip-synching app launched ...

A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine learning to connect audio directly to realistic lip and facial movements.

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese online content platform Bytedance said on Friday it would buy popular lip-sync platform Musical.ly, in a deal seen valued at up to $1 billion that underlines the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – An online safety advocate in West Michigan is urging parents to monitor their kids’ usage of a relatively new app. It’s called musical.ly and it allows users to create and ...

The teen-oriented app has had exponential growth since its 2014 launch — much like Bytedance, the Chinese tech company set to acquire it. Digital lip-syncing aimed at teens is officially a big, big ...