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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…

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Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding it to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to launch Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith: Ed Policy: How technology is changing the game in Green Bay Microsoft…

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An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett about his AI chatbot Ebb, which he says is not intended for serious mental health issues, Ebb’s upgrade to voice, and more (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 7, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The 100-person AI lab that has become Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge…

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OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always revert to the original separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 25, 2025

Zac Room / 9to5Mac: OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always…

Politics

You can almost hear the panic in Mike Johnson’s voice when he says Trump’s presidency could end next year

By Frank M. EverettNovember 5, 2025

The Republicans have a problem. Since 2016, they have not managed to convincingly win an election without Donald Trump on…

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WhatsApp launches Apple Watch companion app, allowing users to receive call notifications, read full messages and record and send voice messages (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 4, 2025

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: WhatsApp is launching an Apple Watch companion app, allowing users to receive call notifications, read full…

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Microsoft unveils Mico, a character that responds with real-time expressions when spoken to, now enabled by default in Copilot voice mode in the US, UK and Canada (Tom Warren/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 23, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix) Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth…

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Finch, which offers a voice AI system to automate administrative tasks performed by paralegals, has raised a $20 million Series A, according to a source, at a valuation of $100 million (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 15, 2025

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Finch, which offers a voice AI system to automate administrative tasks performed by paralegals, raised a…

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How ElevenLabs’ AI tools and others were used to recreate the voice of a woman, lost against motor neurons, from only eight seconds of audio on a VHS band (Beth Rose / BBC)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 24, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: The great debate of GPT-5, the AI bubble of Sam Altman, only the chatbots The…

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The IOS application of Grok now offers two AI "Companions"or 3D animated avatars who interact with users via voice, including Aniime, an anime character with an NSFW mode (Alexey Shabanov / Testingcatalog)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 15, 2025

Alexey Shabanov / Testingcatalog:: The IOS application of Grok now offers two “companions” AI, or 3D animated avatars that interact…

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Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Just 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 major countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada (Financial Times)

SpaceX gets property tax exemption for its $55 billion Terafab chip plant project in Texas, despite threats of legal action from Texans, amid local opposition to AI (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and expand access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures have eroded its AI security standards (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit say peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes that their posts will be deleted and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Browsing: voice

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)

Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding it to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to launch Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett about his AI chatbot Ebb, which he says is not intended for serious mental health issues, Ebb’s upgrade to voice, and more (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)

OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always revert to the original separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

You can almost hear the panic in Mike Johnson’s voice when he says Trump’s presidency could end next year

WhatsApp launches Apple Watch companion app, allowing users to receive call notifications, read full messages and record and send voice messages (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Microsoft unveils Mico, a character that responds with real-time expressions when spoken to, now enabled by default in Copilot voice mode in the US, UK and Canada (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Finch, which offers a voice AI system to automate administrative tasks performed by paralegals, has raised a $20 million Series A, according to a source, at a valuation of $100 million (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

How ElevenLabs’ AI tools and others were used to recreate the voice of a woman, lost against motor neurons, from only eight seconds of audio on a VHS band (Beth Rose / BBC)

The IOS application of Grok now offers two AI "Companions"or 3D animated avatars who interact with users via voice, including Aniime, an anime character with an NSFW mode (Alexey Shabanov / Testingcatalog)