Voice AI Goes Open Source — And a Court Checks the Pentagon
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Voice AI Goes Open Source — And a Court Checks the Pentagon 2026-03-27
Mistral released Voxtral TTS, an open-weight voice model rivaling ElevenLabs, the same day Google shipped Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. Voice AI is commoditizing fast. Also: a federal judge blocked the Pentagon's Anthropic designation, Apple may let users choose AI chatbots for Siri, and senators push for data center energy disclosure.
Mistral releases Voxtral TTS, a 3-billion-parameter open-weight text-to-speech model supporting 9 languages TechCrunch | Mistral AI on X
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live brings lower latency and improved function calling to Google's voice AI Google AI Blog | Google DeepMind Blog | Ars Technica
Trump administration blocked from enforcing Anthropic supply chain risk designation by federal judge The Verge | Financial Times | Wired
Apple reportedly planning to allow third-party AI chatbots to integrate with Siri in iOS 27 The Verge
US Senators Warren and Hawley demand energy transparency from data centers as AI power consumption concerns grow TechCrunch | Wired
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