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Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform

Iceland-based startup Treble raised an $18 million Series A extension to expand its acoustic simulation and synthetic data platform for voice AI companies.

Treble, founded in 2020 by acoustic engineers Finnur Pind and Jesper Pedersen, raised $18 million in a Series A extension led by Paladin Capital Group, bringing total funding above $40 million. The company builds physics-based acoustic simulation for synthetic speech data generation, voice AI model evaluation, and virtual prototyping of headphones, speakers, and smart glasses. Customers include Amazon and Logitech, and it partnered with Hugging Face earlier this year on a benchmark for speech recognition models under realistic conditions.

TechCrunch · AI · 8h agoAI industry

AI labs have a data trust problem that their policies haven't solved

Nvidia, Palantir, and Booz Allen restrict Anthropic's Fable over data-retention distrust, exposing gaps in AI labs' customer data policies.

Nvidia limits Anthropic's Fable to non-sensitive work and runs its own Nemotron models for internal tasks, while Palantir blocks Fable deployment until Anthropic grants irrevocable zero-data-retention guarantees, and Booz Allen bans it for proprietary cybersecurity work. John Schulman and researcher Sarah Hooker explain that labs can still extract customer IP from metadata, user traces, and synthetic data even under zero data retention. The trust crisis crystallized around Tristan Buckmaster's accusation that OpenAI's Codex absorbed his Navier-Stokes drafts, though OpenAI later stated his prompts could not have influenced its model.

The Decoder · 1d agoAI industry

Robots are waiting for a ChatGPT moment: Nvidia’s Les Karpas explains why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

NVIDIA Inception's Les Karpas will discuss at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 why robotics lacks a ChatGPT moment, citing missing internet-scale physical AI datasets.

NVIDIA Inception's Global Head of Physical AI, Les Karpas, will speak on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West. His core argument is that general-purpose robots lack an internet-wide dataset for physical AI, unlike language models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Founders from Shield AI, Colossal Biosciences, FieldAI, and Foxglove will join related sessions.

TechCrunch · AI · 22h agoAI industry

‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce

Salesforce unveiled Koa, its first CRM reasoning model post-trained on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, announced during Jensen Huang's Dreamforce keynote.

At Salesforce Dreamforce, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined Marc Benioff onstage as Salesforce announced Koa, its first CRM reasoning model, post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super using NeMo RL, NeMo Gym, and NeMo AutoModel. Koa was fine-tuned on a proprietary synthetic dataset drawn from nearly three decades of enterprise CRM deployments across 14+ industries, with no customer data used in training or inference. On Salesforce's CRM Bench of real-world tasks, Koa matches or exceeds leading model performance on CRM actions with 3x fewer errors. Koa already powers an employee agent in Slack, enters customer pilots in October with Formula 1, UChicago Medicine, Baxter Credit Union, 1-800Accountant, Engine, and Xero, and reaches general availability in Winter 2026 in U.S. regions.

NVIDIA Blog · 1d agoAI industry