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Prosper AI Raises $30M Series A Led by a16z to Automate the Full Patient Journey — Scheduling, Insurance Verification, and Billing via AI Voice Agents

axios.com · 2026-06-22 · Score: 21

Google Launches First Standalone Smart Speaker Since 2020 at $99.99 Built Natively on Gemini Live, Bets AI Can Revive Stagnant Smart Speaker Market

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-17 · Score: 24

Bland Raises $50M Series C Led by Dell Technologies Capital After 180 Investor Rejections — 3.5 Million Calls Per Week

fortune.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 22

Plaud Crosses $100 Million ARR After Shipping More Than 2 Million AI Notetaker Devices

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 15

Google Releases Android 17 With Gemini Omni, Lyria 3 Music Generation, and AudioLM Translation — Laying Groundwork for Agentic 'Gemini Intelligence' Later in 2026

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 24

Plaud AI Note-Taking Startup Plans New Agent-Ready Wearable Device and Projects $500M in 2026 Sales

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 16

The Verge Hands-On: Rebuilt Gemini-Powered Siri in iOS 27 'Actually Works'

theverge.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 15

Google Launches Gemini Live 3.5 Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Translation Across 70+ Languages With Intonation and Pitch Preservation

blog.google · 2026-06-09 · Score: 24

Google Rolls Out AI Fake Call Detection Globally to Android 12+ — RCS Digital Handshake Warns Users When Callers May Be AI Deepfake Impersonators

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-02 · Score: 23

ElevenLabs Ships Dubbing v2: Performance-Conditioned Dubbing Across 90+ Languages — First System to Preserve Speaker Emotion Without a Transcript

youtube.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 19

Sesame Launches iOS App in 39 Countries — 4 Distinct Voice AI Agents With Persistent Memory, From Oculus Co-Founders

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 20

Stan Lee 'Returns': ElevenLabs Licenses Marvel Legend's Voice and Likeness for AI Narration and Visual Templates

Variety · 2026-05-27 · Score: 23

r/LocalLLaMA: OpenMOSS Releases MOSS-TTS-v1.5 — Open-Source TTS With Multi-Speaker Dialogue, Zero-Shot Voice Cloning, and Sound Effects

huggingface.co · 2026-05-26 · Score: 15

TechCrunch Reviews Amazon's Bee AI Wearable: Constant Conversation Recording Useful, But 'Slightly Creeped Out' by Privacy Implications

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-24 · Score: 17

NTSB Shuts Down Public Docket Access After AI Tools Used to Reconstruct Voices of Pilots Killed in UPS Crash From Publicly Available Spectrograms

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-22 · Score: 23

Spotify Officially Bans AI-Generated Podcasts That Impersonate Real People, Adds Verified Badges for Shows

variety.com · 2026-05-19 · Score: 19

Amazon Alexa+ Now Generates On-Demand AI Podcast Episodes for Subscribers

TechCrunch · 2026-05-18 · Score: 15

Voice AI Systems Can Be Hijacked by Inaudible Audio Attacks Imperceptible to Humans

IEEE Spectrum · 2026-05-18 · Score: 22

Bloomberg/Gurman: Apple iOS 27 Standalone Siri App With Auto-Deleting Chats May Launch With Explicit 'Beta' Label — Positions Privacy as Structural Differentiator From Rivals

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-17 · Score: 24

Amazon Launches Alexa+ AI Shopping Assistant Inside Search Bar — Voice and Touch Across Mobile, Desktop, and Echo Show

TechCrunch · 2026-05-13 · Score: 21

Rivian Ships OTA Update Adding Onboard AI Assistant to All R1T and R1S Vehicles

arstechnica.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 18

Android Auto Gets Major AI-Powered Upgrade With YouTube, Dolby Atmos, and Immersive 3D Maps

techradar.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 19

Vapi Raises $50M Series B at $500M Valuation After Amazon Ring Chose It Over 40 Rivals to Handle 100% of Inbound Calls

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 20

Wispr AI in Talks to Raise ~$260M at $2B Valuation, More Than Doubling Its Previous Mark — Bloomberg

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 21

HN: 'Interaction Models' — Thinking Machines Lab Proposes Real-Time Multimodal Architecture With 200ms Micro-Turn Processing — 112 Points, 11 Comments

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 20

TechCrunch: Wispr Flow Says India Is Now Its Fastest-Growing Voice AI Market, Hits ~100% MoM Growth on Hinglish Launch

TechCrunch · 2026-05-09 · Score: 16

OpenAI Launches GPT-Realtime-2 and Two New Voice Intelligence API Models With GPT-5-Class Reasoning and 70-Language Live Translation

OpenAI · 2026-05-07 · Score: 27

Spotify Repositions as Platform for AI-Generated Personal Audio, Letting Users Import AI-Created Podcasts

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 19

ElevenLabs Crosses $500M ARR, Adds BlackRock, Nvidia, and Celebrity Investors to Series D Third Close

digitalmusicnews.com · 2026-05-06 · Score: 23

OpenAI Engineering: How We Rebuilt Our WebRTC Stack to Deliver Low-Latency Voice AI at Scale

openai.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 22

Deepfake Voice Attacks Are Outpacing Enterprise Defenses as US Incidents Hit 100K

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 17

Sakana AI introduces KAME: tandem speech-to-speech architecture injecting LLM knowledge in real time

marktechpost.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 17

xAI spots Grok Voice mode placeholder for Apple CarPlay in latest iPhone app

9to5mac.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 18

xAI launches Custom Voices: enterprise voice cloning from one minute of speech, deployable in under two minutes

the-decoder.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 22

HN: xAI launches Grok 4.3 with native video input, 1M-token context, and ~40% price cut (387 pts, 518 comments)

venturebeat.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 26

Amazon launches 'Join the Chat' AI audio Q&A on product pages

TechCrunch · 2026-04-28 · Score: 16

HN: Microsoft VibeVoice open-source frontier voice AI trends on front page

Hacker News · 2026-04-28 · Score: 17

Avoca raises $125M+ at $1B valuation to automate home services with AI agents

PR Newswire · 2026-04-27 · Score: 16

xAI launches Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, tops voice AI benchmarks at 67.3%

MarkTechPost · 2026-04-25 · Score: 22

Alibaba deploys Qwen AI across 9+ Chinese automaker dashboards at Beijing Auto Show

CNBC · 2026-04-24 · Score: 22

Newsletter Issues (4)

AI Applications: HSBC will only ship AI that returns $100M

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

AI Applications: The agent is not a product anymore

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

AI Healthcare: Why pharma data is the real moat

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

#448 Issue #448: Mistral AI gives Le Chat voice recognition and deep research tools

2025-07-18 · 1 mentions