Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy
He also left the Anthropic CEO Forum after admitting an affair; Nvidia is probing a possible Chinese spy link.
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Granola adds Mac dictation to compete with Wispr
The free, unlimited Mac feature cleans speech into text in any app; iOS and Windows are planned.
Deepgram acquires Daily and will keep Pipecat open source
The price was not disclosed, and Deepgram is also launching an open Real-Time Context Standard for voice agents.
Block unveils Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on speech
The captured page gives no availability, size, languages or benchmark figures beyond the headline.
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Block unveils Dessa, a speech-only model not yet public
It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max, was trained on one NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, and Block wants security testers.
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Block unveils Dessa, a speech-only conversational AI model
Block says it runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better and will give safety researchers early access.
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Voice AI execs say the field still lacks a ChatGPT-style breakthrough despite full-duplex models.
How assigned AI use before class shapes active student engagement in class
Voice AI class prep raised MBA students' later voluntary contributions by about 31%.
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
ElevenLabs opened a $300 million employee tender at a $22 billion valuation, doubling the mark from its February round.
Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite
Voice intelligence startup Modulate raised $25 million led by Future Ventures for transcription, intent analysis, and deepfake/scam detection across enterprise voice agents.
Muslim: A Deployed Arabic Voice AI Platform for Grounded Islamic Knowledge
Muslim is a production Arabic voice AI for sourced Islamic knowledge, releasing a 6B router and TTS model.
Twenty minutes with the CEO of ElevenLabs, now reportedly valued at $22 billion
ElevenLabs CEO says the voice-AI firm is at $600 million ARR and a reported $22 billion valuation.
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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.
Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost
Nari Labs claims top Coval voice AI benchmark rankings with low-latency, low-cost Qwen3-ASR and Qwen3-TTS inference endpoints.
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AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs abandoned a signed $125M Series C term sheet at a $1.5B valuation amid acquisition talks with Salesforce at roughly $2 billion.
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Gradium Launches Voice Design: Write a Prompt, Get a Brand New Synthetic Voice in Seconds
Gradium, a Kyutai spinout, launched Voice Design, generating custom synthetic voices from text descriptions in seconds across five languages.
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