Conversational AI

Hippocratic AI is reported to use a 31-model safety constellation for patient-facing voice agents, raising questions about oversight and clinical deployment.

Tencent’s Gander separates real-time conversation from background agent work, promising fewer interruptions while exposing tradeoffs in accuracy and multimodal understanding.

OpenAI's GPT‑Live‑1 brings full-duplex voice, custom voices and telephony to its API, expanding options for builders of real-time AI apps.

Google is turning its classic search box into a multimodal AI entry point, merging AI Overviews with AI Mode and reshaping search workflows.

Regal is integrating its AI voice agents with Five9’s contact center platform, giving enterprise teams a new path to automate customer calls.

OpenAI has outlined GPT-Live, a low-latency voice system designed for continuous conversation, offering builders a new approach to realtime AI interaction.

Smallest.ai has raised $13M to build low-latency voice AI for enterprise calls, betting small specialized models can make agents sound human.

Google is redesigning Search’s core input around AI Mode and multimodal queries, a shift that could reshape web discovery, ads, and enterprise workflows.

Anthropic upgraded Claude voice mode to use Opus and Sonnet with app actions, pushing voice AI closer to real workplace tasks than chat alone.

Germany’s Soofi S open model claims top fully open English and German benchmark scores, while its creators also disclosed and corrected a test-data leak.

Cars24 says OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents now handle 1M+ monthly minutes, highlighting how enterprise AI is moving into core customer workflows.

Pinterest has unveiled Ask Pinterest, an experimental conversational AI shopping app designed to explore a more interactive, chat-based approach to product discovery.

Google unveils DialogLab, an open-source framework for authoring, simulating, and testing multi-party human-AI conversations beyond one-on-one interactions.

Google introduces a new experimental feature allowing users to import conversation history from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots into Gemini, aiming to reduce switching friction and capture market share in the competitive AI assistant landscape.