Rebel Audio Launches AI Podcasting Platform
Rebel Audio has launched out of stealth with $3.8 million in seed funding and Mark Burnett as advisor, positioning itself as the Canva of podcasting for first-time creators.
Fish Audio S2: Open-Source TTS Beats GPT-4o
Fish Audio released S2, an open-source text-to-speech model trained on over 10 million hours of audio data spanning 50 languages. The model beats GPT-4o-mini-tts on the EmergentTTS-Eval benchmark with an 81.88% win rate, and ships with full weights, fine-tuning code, and a streaming inference engine
IBM Granite 4.0 Speech Tops OpenASR Leaderboard
IBM released Granite 4.0 1B Speech on March 6, a compact multilingual speech model that now ranks first on the OpenASR Leaderboard for automatic speech recognition
Suno V5 Studio Turns AI Music Into a Real DAW
Suno released major updates to V5 Studio on February 6, 2026, adding warp markers, FX removal, alternate takes, and time signature control
Suno V5 Studio Crosses the Line From Music Generator to Production DAW
For years, AI music generation was a party trick. You typed a prompt, waited a few seconds, and got something that sounded like a song recorded through a hotel wall