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Hands-on with a preview version of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for writing documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 24, 2026

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AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50 million Series B led by Peak

By Stacey D. WallsMay 12, 2026

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50 million Series B led by Peak— Amazon Ring, facing…

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xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, allowing users to code via AI voice or text prompts, and allowing them to switch between PC and mobile (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 28, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, allowing users to code via AI…

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Voice actors around the world are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of the World)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The Pentagon’s AI Plan + Behind the Human Struggle — With Undersecretary of War Emil…

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X brings voice notes back to

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: OpenClaw for standards is here A show about the inside conversations of the tech industry, hosted by…

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Apple adds support for third-party voice chat apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, giving CarPlay users access to apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 18, 2026

Julie Clover / MacRumors: Apple is adding support for third-party voice chat apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, giving…

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Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly reproducing his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 15, 2026

Will Oremus / Washington Post: Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly reproducing his voice in NotebookLM without…

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Google DeepMind signs licensing deal with Hume AI, which creates emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and about 7 top engineers (Will Knight/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 22, 2026

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Matthew McConaughey has obtained eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in recent months to protect his image and voice from unauthorized use of AI (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Can we build a better social network? The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin…

Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Kazakhstan, Russia move forward with $16.4 billion nuclear power plant project – The Diplomat

Nepali PM confuses mandate with immunity – The Diplomat

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

Morgan Stanley to open its wealth management funnel to agents

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

Democrats will force vote to kill Trump’s slush fund and immunity program

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

Analysis: 10 Trump officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, reported holding stakes in SpaceX or xAI worth more than $9.9 million collectively, before SpaceX’s IPO (Bloomberg)

GitLab lays off 350 employees, or 14% of its workforce, as it evolves into an AI-driven enterprise software development platform and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

Browsing: voice

Hands-on with a preview version of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for writing documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50 million Series B led by Peak

xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, allowing users to code via AI voice or text prompts, and allowing them to switch between PC and mobile (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Voice actors around the world are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of the World)

X brings voice notes back to

Apple adds support for third-party voice chat apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, giving CarPlay users access to apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly reproducing his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Google DeepMind signs licensing deal with Hume AI, which creates emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and about 7 top engineers (Will Knight/Wired)

Matthew McConaughey has obtained eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in recent months to protect his image and voice from unauthorized use of AI (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)