Ai Assistant news and trends

Report: Anthropic Set to Add Voice Capabilities to AI Assistant Claude
artificial intelligence // April 15, 2025

Anthropic is reportedly set to add voice capabilities to its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Claude. The new “voice mode” could be released this month and will first be available on a limited basis, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (April 15), citing an unnamed source. It will include...

Apple to Tap User Data for LLM Training
Apple // April 14, 2025

Apple is planning to analyze user data to improve its large language model (LLM) software while upholding user privacy. The company has been using synthetic data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models but has found that method to be ineffective, Apple wrote in a...

Perplexity Launches AI-Powered Shopping Assistant That Can Research and Purchase
artificial intelligence // November 18, 2024

Perplexity has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistant in the U.S. and said it will expand it to additional markets. With the company’s new Buy With Pro, shoppers can both research and purchase products, Perplexity said in a Monday (Nov. 18) blog post. “It...

Mastercard Teams With Databricks on GenAI Assistant
artificial intelligence // October 29, 2024

Mastercard has launched a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital assistant that is designed to simplify the customer onboarding process. This is the first application developed by Mastercard’s new in-house capability for building and deploying knowledge agent tools, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 29)...

Interviews & Exclusives
Facebook Messenger 2.0: Lotsa Bots

April 19, 2017
Innovator, entrepreneur and architect of “the greatest show on Earth” P.T. Barnum famously said, “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” This week, going into its F8 conference — Facebook’s annual in-house version of the greatest show on earth for its developers — the world got a bit of counterevidence, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg did have […]

Voice-Activated Tracker: Google Home Gets Personal

April 18, 2017
Ready or not, here they come … marketers, that is. Everyone’s itching to get on the smart speaker monetization train. Burger King — rather than wait for Google to roll out...

Quick Reads
Perplexity Integrates AI Assistant and Answer Engine With Motorola Phones

April 24, 2025
Perplexity AI said Thursday (April 24) that it has partnered with Motorola in what is “one of our first and most comprehensive integrations with a mobile phone brand.” The artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s answer engine and assistant will be preinstalled on the new generation of Motorola smartphones worldwide, Perplexity AI said in a Thursday blog […]

Report: Anthropic Set to Add Voice Capabilities to AI Assistant Claude

April 15, 2025
Anthropic is reportedly set to add voice capabilities to its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Claude. The new “voice mode” could be released this month and will first be available on...

Apple to Tap User Data for LLM Training

April 14, 2025
Apple is planning to analyze user data to improve its large language model (LLM) software while upholding user privacy. The company has been using synthetic data to train its artificial...

Perplexity Launches AI-Powered Shopping Assistant That Can Research and Purchase

November 18, 2024
Perplexity has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistant in the U.S. and said it will expand it to additional markets. With the company’s new Buy With Pro, shoppers can...