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November 5, 2026

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Czech startup Synhawk develops deepfake detection, partners with Vodafone

The startup Synhawk, founded by entrepreneur Lukáš Foral and Stanford researcher Matyáš Boháček, is developing technology for real-time detection of deepfakes and synthetic content. It is working with the operator Vodafone and is in talks with other telecom companies.

Importance: monitoring Hugging Face Local AI ✓ official

Hugging Face has released a model for local speech synthesis, Phonon TTS

The Phonon TTS speech synthesis model runs directly on the device without internet or cloud. The smaller Phonon 31m version (65 MB, English) has the Apache 2.0 license, usable commercially as well, while the Phonon 40m version (75 MB, 5 languages) with voice cloning is under CC BY-NC.