Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr
Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
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Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.
Source: TechCrunch · Lucas Ropek
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.
Source: TechCrunch · Julie Bort
Google's negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.
Source: Ars Technica · Ryan Whitwam
Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit archives across the United States.
SuperMe is a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts. When you ask a question, the platform determines which experts are best suited to answer and creates a group chat with their AI profiles.
A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended.
Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain and Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents.
Source: TechCrunch · Julie Bort
On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.
Source: TechCrunch · Sarah Perez
The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.
The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions.
With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.
Source: TechCrunch · Ivan Mehta