OpenAI and former Apple designer Jony Ive's ambitious palm-sized, screenless AI device hits major roadblocks as engineers struggle with 'always on' functionality, privacy concerns, and computing infrastructure issues, potentially derailing the planned 2026 launch.
Voice AI evaluation standards prove inadequate for 2025 demands as experts call for new metrics measuring end-to-end task success, barge-in behavior, and hallucination-under-noise, moving beyond traditional speech recognition benchmarks that fail to capture real-world performance of modern voice agents.
Amazon unveils four new Echo devices powered by Alexa+ generative AI starting at $99.99, featuring advanced AZ3 chips and enhanced contextual awareness to compete against OpenAI and Google in the escalating AI assistant battle.
Nvidia open-sources professional AI voice animation technology for 3D avatars, scientists successfully create functional viral genomes using artificial intelligence raising biosecurity fears, and OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse as a proactive personal assistant that automatically delivers customized updates to users.
Spotify removes 75 million spam tracks in 12 months and introduces new AI disclosure requirements for music, partnering with 15 record labels to combat AI-generated content problems including artist impersonation and lack of transparency.
Spotify removes 75 million spam tracks in 12 months while launching new AI voice clone protection policies and developing industry-standard disclosure credits to identify how artificial intelligence was used in music creation.
Nvidia open-sources Audio2Face, a groundbreaking AI tool that automatically generates realistic facial animations and lip movements for 3D avatars using only voice audio input, giving developers free access to create lifelike digital characters for games, apps, and livestreams.
Viral call-recording app Neon, downloaded 75,000 times yesterday and ranking in top-five free iPhone apps, shuts down after security breach exposes users' phone numbers and private conversations to any logged-in user.
Google launches Search Live nationwide, enabling users to have voice conversations with AI while sharing real-time camera feeds for instant visual assistance with travel, hobbies, troubleshooting, education, and entertainment needs.
Qwen releases Qwen3-ASR-Toolkit, an open source Python tool to bypass limits on its Qwen3-ASR-Flash API for speech recognition, offering parallel processing, audio normalization, format conversion, and text cleanup.