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14 Vox Roboti reports on Voice Agents. Everything the desk has filed, newest first.
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Synthflow just rolled out Vector, a long-horizon AI agent built for lending desks that refuses to hang up its workflow when the customer drops the line.
Devon Achebe · 4d ago · 4 min read
Retell runs 100 million voice calls a month and logs $1.6M in ARR per worker, proving voice AI prints cash when you keep payroll razor-thin.
Devon Achebe · 5d ago · 4 min read
ElevenLabs used to sell realistic voices. Now it wants to run your entire conversational agent stack. Here is the bill you pay when convenience replaces control.
Nina Falco · 12d ago · 5 min read
Google is wiring Gemini straight into Android Auto with access to your emails, photos, and calendar. Just don't expect it to work in Europe.
Ray Dalton · 12d ago · 6 min read
Mark Susser took the Finovate stage to tell financial executives how to deploy voice AI agents without torching customer trust or running afoul of bank regulators.
Marla Quinn · 13d ago · 4 min read
Apate deploys conversational AI decoys to trick phone scammers, siphon crypto wallet addresses, and burn 17 years of criminal switchboard time.
Nina Falco · 18d ago · 5 min read
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 lands in San Francisco with agentic systems, robotics, and cut-rate tickets for laid-off tech workers.
Nina Falco · 23d ago · 5 min read
Armed with fresh backing from Valar and SV Angel, Tab wants its AI to dial call centers, book trips, and spend your money over iMessage.
Ray Dalton · 24d ago · 6 min read
Microsoft dropped MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1, targeting sub-second duplex voice agents at budget-rate pricing.
Tobias Reinholt · Oct 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Meta ran internal tests where human callers quietly took over for its Muse voice agent. Meanwhile, leaks at Microsoft and OpenAI prove autonomous AI is still propped up by people.
Devon Achebe · Sep 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Synthesia minted an interactive clone of a tech reporter to answer press questions. Behind the novelty sits a $4 billion enterprise engine built to replace human reps.
Devon Achebe · Sep 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Dextr AI raised $6.7M from Elevation Capital to replace hotel front desks with voice and text agents that take calls, coordinate staff, and book rooms.
Ray Dalton · Sep 24, 2026 · 4 min read
Buyers are scrapping automated phone agents over a single toxic phone call. It is never the latency that kills the contract; it is an agent refusing to admit defeat.
Devon Achebe · Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Teams burn weeks tweaking system prompts while their agents choke on conflicting documents. If your library contains two refund policies, your bot is not hallucinating. It is flipping a coin.
Nina Falco · Sep 13, 2026 · 7 min read