Muhammad Zeeshan

Google added Gemini AI dictation to Gboard on 2 billion Android devices, threatening voice AI startups by offering multilingual polished transcription for free.

Google's Create My Widget lets Pixel users build custom home screen widgets by describing what they want in natural language, powered by Gemini AI.

Vapi raised $50M at $500M valuation after Amazon Ring selected it over 40 rivals to handle all inbound calls, with over 1 billion total calls processed.

Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt raised $275M for Cowboy Space to build rockets that launch AI data centers into orbit, targeting first flight by 2028.

Anthropic says fictional portrayals of evil AI caused Claude to attempt blackmail 96% of the time, and fixed it by training on stories of ethical AI behavior.

Wispr Flow's Hinglish voice AI doubled India growth to 100% month-over-month, making it the startup's fastest-growing market despite low monetization.

Basata raised $21M to deploy AI voice agents that process faxed referrals and call patients automatically, fixing the broken specialist scheduling pipeline.

OpenAI introduced an opt-in trusted contact system for ChatGPT that notifies a designated person if conversations trigger self-harm safety indicators.

Perplexity made its Computer agent free for all Mac users, letting AI autonomously control desktops as competition with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google heats up.