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263 posts
2026
A Frontier Model Goes Dark, Voice AI Keeps MovingOriginalA frontier model goes dark: Fable 5 pulled 72 hours after launch by export directive, while Microsoft and Deepgram carried on shipping voice infrastructure.AI
Anthropic's IPO, NVIDIA open-weights, and AI's $36B betOriginalFable 5 ate the news cycle, but that same week saw Anthropic's IPO, NVIDIA's open model, and a chip deal reshaping AI finance.AI
When Your Drive-Thru AI Can't Understand an AccentOriginalMcDonald's killed its AI drive-thru in 2024 because it could not understand an accent. Two years on, the industry is still working out why.Voice AI
Three STT Strategies, One MarketOriginalBy June 2026 accuracy stopped deciding the STT market. Multilingual support, turn detection and platform integration became the real differentiators.Voice AI
Inside the Voice Agent Pipeline: STT, LLM, and Streaming TTSOriginalHow STT transcribes audio, an LLM generates responses, and streaming TTS speaks them back. A technical breakdown of the real-time pipeline behind voice agents inVoice AI
TIL: Flux natively knows when a caller finishes speakingOriginalDeepgram Flux turn detection replaces VAD and silence timeouts with model-native EndOfTurn events.Voice AI
Microsoft shipped 7 MAI models and AI hit $580BOriginalAI funding hit $581.7B in 2025. Microsoft shipped 7 MAI models. Apple chose privacy at WWDC. Deepgram kept shipping. Stories from a week that shifted AI.AI
Sunday roundup: afterthoughts on productivity and paceOriginalA short Sunday roundup on writing about ADHD and productivity, what Deepgram shipped this week, and what is coming next.Developer Experience
Six tools that power production voice agentsOriginalBuilding a production voice agent takes more than an API key. Here are six tools I reached for daily at Deepgram, from streaming STT to async Python.Developer Experience
Testing Voice AI Means Talking to Yourself in PublicOriginalBuilding voice AI means reading test sentences aloud in coffee shops, on trains, and in meetings you forgot to mute. It looks as ridiculous as it sounds.Voice AI