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NotebookLM Expands Video Overviews to 80 Languages Worldwide

Aug 26, 2025

Google

NotebookLM's Video Overviews, offering in-depth audio summaries, expand from English to over 80 languages worldwide, now available to all users.

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Google Launches Pixel 10 Lineup with Foldable Pro Model, Upgraded Watch, and Affordable Buds

Aug 21, 2025

CNET

Google unveils its Pixel 10 lineup, featuring the foldable Pixel 10 Pro Fold with dust and water resistance, the fitness-focused Pixel Watch 4 with fall detection and AI integration, and the affordable Pixel Buds 2A with noise cancellation.

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Google Unveils Gemini Live with Enhanced Visual Guidance and App Integration

Aug 21, 2025

Google

Google launches Gemini Live, offering enhanced visual guidance overlaying the camera view, seamless app integration with Calendar, Keep, Tasks, Messages, Maps, and more expressive, natural speech with improved intonation and accents.

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Google Unveils Pixel 10 with Tensor G5 Chip, Gemini Nano AI, and Innovative Features

Aug 21, 2025

Google

Google unveils the Pixel 10 with the cutting-edge Tensor G5 chip, Gemini Nano AI model, and innovative features like Magic Cue, Voice Translate, writing assistance, music creation tools, and visual guidance from Gemini Live.

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ElevenLabs Unveils Chat Mode for Text-Only Conversational AI

Aug 21, 2025

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs unveils Chat Mode, allowing customers to converse with AI agents through text instead of speech, empowering developers to rapidly deploy chat-based conversational AI solutions using SDKs, API, or HTML.

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NVIDIA Unleashes Granary: 1 Million Hours of Audio Fuel Multilingual Speech AI

Aug 20, 2025

AI Minds Newsletter

NVIDIA unveils Granary, a groundbreaking dataset comprising 1 million hours of audio, propelling multilingual speech AI; Apple's Siri gains cross-app voice command capabilities; a guide empowers beginners to master voice cloning in just 11 minutes.

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Meta Unveils AI Voice Translations for Global Creators, Spanning English and Spanish

Aug 20, 2025

TechCrunch

Meta empowers global creators with AI voice translations spanning English and Spanish, enabling content reach across languages through lip-synced audio for a seamless experience.

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NVIDIA Unveils Groundbreaking AI Models and Dataset for Multilingual Speech Recognition

Aug 15, 2025

NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA unveils Granary, a 1 million hour dataset spanning 25 languages, along with Canary-1b-v2 for multilingual speech recognition and translation, and Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 for real-time transcription, pushing boundaries in AI language models.

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Character.AI Shifts to AI Entertainment with 20 Million Users, Storytelling Focus

Aug 13, 2025

WIRED

Character.AI, with 20 million users, shifts focus from artificial general intelligence to AI entertainment, offering AI-generated stories and conversations, like a 6-year-old girl building mystery tales through voice chats with a Sherlock Holmes chatbot.

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Apple Unveils Siri Upgrade with Voice App Control Capabilities

Aug 11, 2025

TechCrunch

Apple unveils a groundbreaking Siri upgrade that empowers users to control apps like Uber, YouTube, and Facebook through voice commands, leveraging the App Intents framework, slated for release in spring 2026.

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