Scale AI launches Voice Showdown, the first real-world benchmark for voice AI — and the results are humbling for some top models

Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversat [...]

Gong launches ‘Mission Andromeda’ with AI sales coaching, chatbot and open MCP connections to rivals

Gong, the revenue intelligence company that has spent a decade turning recorded sales calls into data, today launched what it calls Mission Andromeda — its most ambitious platform release to date, b [...]

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate plat [...]

How to talk to ChatGPT on your phone

ChatGPT has had support for voice conversations since the end of 2023, but if you’re new to OpenAI’s chatbot, figuring out how to converse with it can be tricky since there are a couple of ways to [...]

The best language learning apps for 2025

There’s a good chance learning a new language is one of your New Year’s resolutions, unless you’re hoping Google Translate will be enough for your next international adventure. Either way, you†[...]

Ask Engadget: How do I answer calls on my iPhone with only my voice?

Last August, my best friend asked me how she could help her neighbor set her iPhone so she could answer it without picking it up. The neighbor had Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and had lost dexterity in bo [...]

Pokémon Legends: Z-A feels like a strong step forward for the series

The Pokémon series has had staying power ever since its debut in the 1990s, but it has felt especially popular in recent years, thanks to Pokémon GO and the resurgence of the trading card game. Give [...]

The Tacx Alpine is a $1,100 gradient simulator for your Garmin smart bike trainer

Cycling season may have only just started, but that’s not stopping Garmin from looking ahead to when all the roadies need to take their bikes indoors. On Tuesday, the company announced the Tacx Alpi [...]

Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory floo [...]