Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription |

6:30 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech…

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation |

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use…

Flighty’s new update gives you real-time alerts about airport disturbances |

8:05 AM PDT · March 24, 2026 As airport chaos becomes the new norm, popular flight-tracking app Flighty released a new “Airport Intelligence” feature that…

Littlebird raises $11M for its AI-assisted ‘recall’ tool that reads your computer screen |

There has been a lot of talk around building context for AI systems. In consumer software, we have seen startups being built around search, documents,…

Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise |

Consumer-facing security tools often focus on one kind of modality, such as password protection, VPNs, or identity management. This forces people to use multiple tools…

Microsoft hires the team of Sequoia-backed AI collaboration platform, Cove |

8:33 AM PDT · March 18, 2026 The team behind Cove, a Sequoia-backed startup that was working on an AI-powered collaboration board, has joined Microsoft,…

Truecaller now lets you hang up on scammers — on behalf of your family |

Caller identity platform Truecaller recently launched a new feature that lets one person become an admin of a family group, get alerts about fraud calls…

Webflow buys AI content-generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite |

Webflow, which offers a software platform for building and hosting websites, is acquiring AI-powered content-generation platform Vidoso to beef up its suite of marketing offerings.…

Former Apple engineer raises $5M for a note-taking pendant that only records your voice |

Transcription and note-taking has emerged as one of the prime use cases for wearable gadgets as AI models advance voice-to-text tech. We’re even seeing some…

Sandbar secures $23M Series A for its AI note-taking ring |

Sandbar, a startup by former Meta employees Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong, attracted much attention last year when it showed off its note-taking wearable, the…