Voice AI

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI’s president just confirmed the thing we’ve all been guessing at: real hardware, a whole family of it, designed for talking to AI instead of typing at it. Greg Brockman sat down with Joanna Stern and said OpenAI is “building a family of devices” for its chatbots. No release date, no specs, no confirmation of the smart speaker rumors — just “you can expect them soon.” I wrote about OpenAI’s earlier hardware moves when the Codex Micro macro pad was announced, and that post holds up. But this interview is a bigger deal, because Brockman said something specific about how we’ll use these devices. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI’s president just confirmed the company is building hardware — a “family of devices” for its AI chatbots — and most of the coverage is arguing about what the gadgets will look like. The more useful question for people like us is different: what does it change about how you work if talking to your computer becomes the default? ...

Encore AI mines your top performers’ calls and trains AI agents to replicate them. The $30M raise signals a shift from AI-as-cost-cutting to AI-as-revenue-generation.

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been testing voice AI for over a year now, and the jump since spring is genuinely surprising. GPT-5 shipped in August 2025, and the specialized voice models OpenAI released alongside it changed what happens when you talk to AI instead of typing at it. Some of it is useful today. Some of it is still more demo than product. ...