This week
Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
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+2Covered by 5 sources Testing Gemini’s Ability to Hold a Human Persona
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LessWrong Dayforce to Acquire Ribbon AI to Bring Conversational Interviews Into Agentic Recruiting
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Unite.AI From Her to Klara and the Sun, AI friendship moves beyond the screen
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ET AI (The Economic Times) NiCE bets the company on AI, data and accountability, and the legacy business buys it time
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SiliconANGLE How Numan Built an Eval-First AI Health Coach with LangGraph and LangSmith
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LangChain AI hiring startup Hunar.AI raises Rs 40 crore from Blume Ventures, others
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ET AI (The Economic Times) Binance AI Pro Turns Trading Ideas Into Tested Automated Workflows
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Unite.AI This month
How AI is Powering the Future of Citizen Services
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ET AI (The Economic Times) Kakao unveils new AI assistant service to be launched on KakaoTalk
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Yonhap News Agency ChatGPT is getting a lot more visual, with the launch of a new interface
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+5Covered by 8 sources Automation Anywhere acquires Boost.ai to expand customer-facing voice AI
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Covered by 2 sources Marv
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Product Hunt Gemini Live vs. ChatGPT Voice: Which AI offers a more natural conversation?
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Engadget SocialGPT
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Product Hunt ChatGPT Pro Max 🤖, Muse realtime avatar 🎭, DeepSeek $1B ARR 💰
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TLDR AI ElevenLabs’ CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they’re talking to a bot
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TechCrunch Presentation: Designing Fast, Delightful UX With LLMs for Mobile Frontends
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InfoQ (AI, ML & Data) I asked ChatGPT what it was least confident about, and its advice improved
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TechRadar Grok 4.7
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Product Hunt Gemini 3.8 Live Transforms Conversational AI
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AI Business Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking powers Gemini Live, Gmail, & Keep
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+3Covered by 6 sources 3 ex-Apple researchers want to make AI less awkward. Lightspeed, Accel, and Nvidia are giving them $50 million to do it.
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Covered by 3 sources Contact center AI faces its resolution test as metrics fall out of step
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SiliconANGLE How to edit Claude's memory
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Engadget LivePerson Stockholders Sign Off on SoundHound AI Takeover
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Unite.AI Phil Marshall, Founder and CEO of Spoken – Interview Series
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Unite.AI Andreea Pleşea, PhD, COO and Co-Founder of Druid AI – Interview Series
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Unite.AI Anthropic Is Quietly Cutting Google Out of the Equation
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Covered by 3 sources Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard
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Vercel Plaud’s $250 earbuds record your conversations and act on what they hear
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The Next Web ChatGPT can log into your web accounts without you now - but should you let it?
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ZDNet Scalable Capital connects €60bn of client assets to outside AI assistants
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The Next Web Chat SDK now supports XChat
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Vercel AI Skills for Real Engineers
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Hacker News Teletubbies Owner WildBrain Buys AI Firm for $11 Million
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Hollywood Reporter Introducing LangSmith Tuned Evaluators
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LangChain Gemini in Chrome Is Now Available for Android Users
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Covered by 3 sources Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application
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AWS Blog ChatGPT Ads Arrive in Brazil as OpenAI Adds Conversion Tools and Carousels
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Unite.AI Ling 3.0 Tiny is now available on AI Gateway
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Vercel One.com just rebuilt its website builder around conversational AI – and it can modernize your old website in an instant
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TechRadar I stopped using ChatGPT Voice like a smart speaker — and it became far more useful
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TechRadar Conversational AI: align commercial incentives with public interests
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Nature Spotify launches a conversational AI that lets you shape what plays by talking to the app
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The Next Web Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’
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TechCrunch NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
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AWS Blog Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI
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The Next Web Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
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TechCrunch Sneak peek at new Siri app reveals Apple’s plans to take on ChatGPT and more
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TechCrunch Google Is Slopping Up Search and It Wants You to Talk to the Ads
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Gizmodo Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
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TechCrunch How ChatGPT adoption broadened in early 2026
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Open AI News Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week
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TechCrunch Getting started with ChatGPT
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Open AI News Analyzing data with ChatGPT
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Open AI News Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT
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TechCrunch Simulate realistic users to evaluate multi-turn AI agents in Strands Evals
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AWS Blog Xero partners with Anthropic to put small business finances inside Claude
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The Next Web Introducing Amazon Polly Bidirectional Streaming: Real-time speech synthesis for conversational AI
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AWS Blog Showing the 60 most recent of 63 stories on Conversational AI