ChatGPT gets major voice upgrades, Perplexity brings AI to Mac

Perplexity brings 'Personal Computer' to Mac.

ChatGPT

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You can now use new voice features that make conversations more natural, translate speech live across many languages, and transcribe what you say as you speak.

ChatGPT gets major voice upgrades and a new safety feature.

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You can now set up a 'Trusted Contact' who will be alerted if ChatGPT detects you're talking about self-harm, adding an important safety net.

ChatGPT gets major voice upgrades and a new safety feature.

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GPT‑Realtime‑2 , our first voice model with GPT‑5‑class reasoning that can handle harder requests and carry the conversation forward naturally.

GPT‑Realtime‑Translate, a new live translation model that translates speech from 70+ input languages into 13 output languages while keeping pace with the speaker.

GPT‑Realtime‑Whisper, a new streaming speech-to-text that transcribes speech live as the speaker talks.

Original reportingAdvancing voice intelligence with new models in the APIRead original ↗

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Perplexity

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The 'Personal Computer' feature is now available for all Mac users through the desktop app, letting the AI help you with tasks on your computer.

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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You can now turn off the Gemini AI model that runs in your Chrome browser if you don't want it on your computer.

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…

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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 ↗