Google DeepMind acquires Hume AI's CEO Alan Cowen and seven engineers in a $100 million licensing deal to integrate emotional voice technology into its AI models, positioning the tech giant to compete directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT voice capabilities.
ElevenLabs launches groundbreaking AI music album featuring legendary artists Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, who co-create full compositions from simple prompts while retaining complete authorship and commercial rights to their AI-generated tracks.
ElevenLabs launches groundbreaking AI-generated album featuring GRAMMY winners Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, who use Eleven Music technology to create original compositions across rap, pop, R&B, and EDM genres while maintaining full artistic ownership and commercial licensing rights.
Aibrary launches Nova, an AI companion that transforms millions of books into personalized podcasts and features memory-enabled learning experiences, debate partners, and daily AI-generated content across 170 countries.
OpenAI partners with Foxconn to launch 'Sweetpea,' an AirPod-style AI assistant with 2nm processor, targeting 40-50 million units in first year with September release as CEO Sam Altman expands beyond AI models into hardware to directly compete with Apple's dominance.
OpenAI develops 'Sweetpea,' a revolutionary behind-the-ear wearable device featuring skin contact sensors and ultrasonic transmitters that can listen and sense beyond traditional audio capabilities, with Foxconn manufacturing planned for Vietnam indicating serious consumer-scale ambitions.
Deepgram secures $130M Series C funding at $1.3B valuation while acquiring restaurant AI voice platform OfOne, as the startup races to pass the Audio Turing Test within a year amid intensifying competition in voice AI technology that promises more natural human-computer interactions across industries.
Apple strikes a massive $1 billion annual deal with Google to supercharge Siri using Gemini AI models, accelerating the voice assistant's upgrade timeline while delaying its own proprietary AI development until 2026.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds launches AudioNoise, an open-source guitar pedal project that generates random digital audio effects, marking his first foray into AI-assisted coding using Google's Antigravity tool to overcome his Python programming limitations.
Spotify unveils real-time music sharing and live listening features for its Messages platform, which has exploded to 340 million exchanges among 40 million users, allowing friends to see what others are playing instantly and join synchronized listening sessions together.