Jul 31, 2026
Anthropic announced an update to Claude's voice mode that adds support for the more capable Opus and Sonnet models alongside Haiku. The update also allows users to switch models mid-conversation and use connected apps and multiple languages.
OpenAI unveiled Presence, a new enterprise platform for deploying AI voice agents and chatbots, while announcing plans to spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030—a 25% increase from earlier estimates. The moves come as the company faces pressure to prove AI's business value, while Emarketer projects that OpenAI will fall far short of its AI advertising revenue targets.
OpenAI launched GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper in its Realtime API, enabling developers to build reasoning agents, speech translation across 70+ languages, and streaming transcription capabilities.
Folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered multiple AI-generated fake songs attributed to her on Spotify, becoming a target for both AI impersonation and copyright trolling in a case highlighting vulnerabilities in music platforms' content verification systems.
Microsoft's MAI division released three new foundation models: MAI-Transcribe-1 (speech-to-text in 25 languages, 2.5x faster than Azure Fast), MAI-Voice-1 (audio generation), and an image generation model. The transcription model costs $0.36 per audio hour.