Anthropic launches Voice mode for Claude

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📰 News: Anthropic launches Voice mode for Claude + New details about OpenAI & Jony Ive’s collaboration

⚡️ Top News Stories:

1.Anthropic has launched a beta voice mode for its Claude chatbot that enables real-time spoken conversations with voice feedback, dynamic on-screen displays, and post-chat summaries, offering a more natural hands-free experience with limited availability for free users and advanced integrations for premium subscribers.

2. OpenAI and Jony Ive are collaborating on a screen-free, context-aware, pocket-sized AI device—positioned as a “third core device” alongside the iPhone and MacBook Pro—that aims to reduce screen dependence through ambient AI integration, with CEO Sam Altman predicting it could reach 100 million units faster than any previous product and potentially add $1 trillion in value to OpenAI.

3. Mistral AI has launched Document AI, an enterprise-grade OCR and document processing platform capable of handling 2,000 pages per minute with over 99% accuracy, supporting complex layouts and multilingual workflows for high-volume business needs.

4. Nvidia will release a lower-priced Blackwell GPU tailored for China using GDDR7 memory and basic packaging to comply with U.S. export limits, marking a strategic move to retain market share after losing half its Chinese data center business.

5. Amazon is piloting AI-powered audio product summaries that use LLMs to turn product details and reviews into short-form spoken clips, making shopping more intuitive, conversational, and time-saving for users.

6. Apple is reportedly preparing to launch its first smart glasses in 2026 with audio, camera, and Siri integration for tasks like calls and navigation, though full augmented reality support is still years away.

7. Researchers from MIT and partners have developed a machine-learning model called CAV-MAE Sync that autonomously learns to match specific visual frames to corresponding audio without human labels, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in multimodal retrieval and scene understanding.

8. Meta’s Nick Clegg argues that requiring prior artist consent for AI training data would cripple the UK’s AI industry, as Parliament debates a transparency amendment backed by major creators to enforce copyright protections.

9. Elon Musk’s DOGE team is facing mounting ethics and privacy concerns after allegedly deploying his Grok AI chatbot within U.S. government agencies like DHS to analyze sensitive data without authorization, risking conflict-of-interest violations and unlawful surveillance.

💰 Top Funding News:

1.  Oracle is investing $40 billion in Nvidia's GB200 chips to power OpenAI’s new AI data center in Texas as part of the U.S. Stargate Project, aiming to bolster America's AI infrastructure and reduce OpenAI’s dependency on Microsoft.

2. SpAItial, which is building a foundation model to create interactive and photorealistic 3D environments from text prompts, raised a $13M Seed round led by Earlybird Venture Capital with participation from Speedinvest and several angel investors.

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