ChatGPT gets smarter voice features and a new safety tool, Perplexity brings its 'Personal Computer' to Mac, and Gemini…

ChatGPT's voice features are getting a big upgrade with new models for smarter talks and live trans… Perplexity's helpful 'Personal Computer' agent is now…

ChatGPT

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You can now have more natural voice conversations with ChatGPT thanks to a new model that understands harder requests better.

ChatGPT's voice features are getting a big upgrade with new models for smarter talks and live trans…

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The app now offers live translation, letting you speak in over 70 languages and get real-time translations into 13 others.

ChatGPT's voice features are getting a big upgrade with new models for smarter talks and live trans…

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A new feature lets the app transcribe what you say live as you speak, making voice interactions smoother.

ChatGPT's voice features are getting a big upgrade with new models for smarter talks and live trans…

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Perplexity

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Perplexity's "Personal Computer" feature, which acts like a local AI assistant, is now available for all Mac users through its desktop app.

Perplexity’s Personal Computer, its answer to OpenClaw and other local AI agents, is now available to all Mac users via its desktop app, the company announced on Thursday. As a reminder, Personal Computer is an expansion on Perplexity’s general-purpose, multi-model digital worker dubbed, confusingly, Perplexity Computer.

“Personal Computer,” meanwhile, is designed to bring those capabiliti…

“Personal Computer,” meanwhile, is designed to bring those capabilitie…

Original reportingPerplexity's Personal Computer is now available to everyone on Mac | TechCrunchRead original ↗

Gemini

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If you use Chrome, a Gemini Nano AI feature runs in the background for things like scam detection, and you can now choose to disable it if you prefer.

If you use Google's Chrome browser for desktop, there's probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. Google built the model into Chrome to enabled on-device AI scam-detection features.

Parisa Tabriz, Chrome's general manager, emphasized in a post on X on Wednesday that integrating Gemini Nano “powers important security capabilities like on-device scam detection and developer APIs without sending your data to the clo…

Original reportingYou Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You OutRead original ↗

Claude

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Market researcher tracks sector and issuer developments, synthesizes news, filings, and broker research, and flags items for credit and risk review.

We’re releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services: building pitchbooks, screening KYC files, and closing the books at month-end.

Each one ships as a plugin in Claude Cowork and Claude C…

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Claude also now works across Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook (coming soon) through the Claude add-ins for Microsoft 365.

Market researcher tracks sector and issuer developments, synthesizes news, filings, and broker rese…

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Claude Code

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Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio TechCrunch

The company said that if you already use a tool like OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, or OpenClaw, you can use Spotify’s new CLI tool, which is in be… The company said that if you already use a tool like OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, or OpenClaw, you can use Spotify’s new CLI tool, which is in beta, to create the podcast and import it to Spotify to consume l…

The podcasts will appear in the user’s Spotify library for easy access, but aren’t available to other Spotify users.

Original reportingSpotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio | TechCrunchRead original ↗