🎙️ Chatbots find their voice as audio assistants rise ↗
Voice-first AI is getting good enough that typing starts to feel optional. The core point is straightforward: speech is much faster than typing, and recognition quality is inching into that “stop noticing it” zone.
Earbuds plus always-on assistants could make searching, ordering, and general task-handling feel more hands-free than we’re used to. And yes, the money trail is right behind it - voice-AI market forecasts, rising VC interest, and companies like ElevenLabs benefiting from the appetite for natural-sounding synthetic voices.
💼 India's Coforge to acquire Encora in $2.35 billion deal to boost AI offerings ↗
Coforge is buying Encora in a deal pegged at a $2.35B enterprise value, clearly aiming to bulk up its AI delivery muscle and press harder into the Americas. The ownership structure matters too - Encora shareholders end up with a meaningful chunk of the combined company.
Financing-wise, it’s a familiar cocktail: a big equity component (with preference shares in the mix) and debt handled via fundraising routes like a bridge loan or institutional placement. It’s the AI services arms race again, just wearing a suit and holding a spreadsheet.
🧠 New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings ↗
New York is moving to require warning labels on social platforms with addictive mechanics - infinite scroll, autoplay, algorithmic feeds. Not an “AI law” in name, but the algorithmic-feed piece is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
Enforcement would sit with the state attorney general, with civil penalties per violation. The whole framing carries “public health warning label” energy… which can sound dramatic, yet it matches how people describe feeds now.
💸 AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025 ↗
The AI rally has translated into wild wealth jumps at the very top, according to billionaire tracking the piece references. It’s less “one winner” and more “the entire AI tide lifted a suspicious number of mega-yachts.”
Names like Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang show up in the mix. The subtext is the uncomfortable part - the gap widening while everyone else watches the number climb like it’s a scoreboard they don’t get to play on.
🧩 Scribe raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion valuation to fix how companies adopt AI. Read its pitch deck. ↗
Scribe raised $75M in a Series C at a $1.3B valuation, pitching itself as the “workflow clarity” layer companies need before AI can genuinely help (which is annoyingly true… or so it seems). The bet: document how work happens, then find the safest places to automate without setting the org on fire.
Their product lineup leans into that - capturing workflows automatically, then flagging inefficiencies and openings. They also point to a huge dataset of documented workflows, which is basically like having a map of corporate maze corridors when everyone else is still squinting in the dark.
⚡ Trump’s war on offshore wind faces another lawsuit ↗
Dominion Energy filed suit over federal actions that pause or slow offshore wind development, arguing it threatens power supply right when demand is surging - with AI data centers explicitly called out as part of the load. It’s a sideways kind of AI story: not models, just electrons.
The broader clash is energy policy vs the infrastructure reality of data center growth. Dominion’s argument is blunt: stall generation projects, and reliability risks - plus customer costs - start creeping upward, whether anyone likes it or not.