The latest on AI tools and the author AI space.
Eleven v3, ElevenLabs' most emotionally expressive text-to-speech model, is now generally available with audio tags, multi-speaker dialogue, and 70+ languages.
OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Instant, now the default model for all ChatGPT users, delivers noticeably better creative writing and dramatically fewer unnecessary refusals.
The Authors Guild expanded its 'Human Authored' certification to all U.S.-published authors for $10 per title, but the program's binary framing may do more to stigmatize AI-assisted authors than to help readers.
The Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, leaving intact lower court rulings that artwork created entirely by AI without human creative input cannot receive copyright protection.
Spotify now publishes weekly audiobook rankings by genre, giving authors a new discovery channel on a platform with over 250,000 audiobook titles.
Sudowrite's latest update brings two of the most capable AI models available to its fiction writing tools, while also preserving access to older models being retired elsewhere.
If your books were used to train Anthropic's Claude AI, you may be entitled to roughly $3,000 per title from a $1.5 billion settlement, but you need to file your claim by March 30.
Midjourney's long-awaited V8 model is days from public release, bringing native 2K resolution and dramatically improved text rendering that could change how authors create book covers and marketing graphics.