Voice AI startups raised more than $650 million in January. The figure goes up if you count startups like Synthesia and Decagon.
Check out the funding tracker on my voice AI newsletter
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Voice AI startups raised more than $650 million in January. The figure goes up if you count startups like Synthesia and Decagon.
Check out the funding tracker on my voice AI newsletter
weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/voice-ai-f...
WhatsApp is becoming a key part of Meta's business and AI distribution.
The company said during its Q4 results that WhatsApp paid messaging crossed $2 billion in annual run rate.
India's app market had a good year in 2025. While downloads increased, the most eye-catching figure is that in-app purchases crossed the $1 billion mark for the first time.
India was #21 in the app revenue chart, just missing out on the top 20 spot, as per Sensor Tower
New: Facebook is testing limiting the number of links accounts in professional mode and pages can post in a month. They can get rid of this limit if they pay for Meta Verified.
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Reliance Jio is removing age restrictions for its free 18 month Google AI Pro plan in India. You just need to have any of the eligible 5G unlimited plans.
19.11.2025 04:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You seem excited and that makes me happy.
29.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🤨🥸🧐
29.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0User growth matters much more now. And more than text, generate an image is a better pitch in India.
29.10.2025 19:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Typically, a company acquires a startup and changes its branding. In this case, Grammarly acquired Superhuman and changed the company name to Superhuman
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OpenAI will give free access to ChatGPT Go in India for users who sign up before November 4.
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Scoop: WhatsApp changed terms of its Business API to ban general purpose chatbots. This will impact WhatsApp bots of ChatGPT and Perplexity.
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To put a limit on spam, WhatsApp is now testing limits on how many messages users and businesses can send in a month without getting replies
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Atlassian is buying Arc and Dia maker The Browser Company for $610 million in an all-cash deal. This shows how tough it is to make browsers a viable business
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Why AI browsers want to change the way you search
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Breaking: WhatsApp is adding ads. These ads will show up in Status, the chat app's Stories clone.
Meta says it will only use data like country or city, language, and the channels you are following to serve you ads.
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Verifying myself for the Journalists of Color slack. journalistsofcolor.us/%22
12.06.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image generation/editing is very trendy in India right now.
13 out of top 20 free apps on Play Store are Chatbots or AI photo editing apps.
India created a browser challenge, mainly so that applicants can include the country's indigenous root certificate. However, the challenge didn't go well, especially after winners were found pretty much forking popular browsers
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Breaking: Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Saudi-owned Scopely for $3.5 billion. The company is still choosing to run Ingress Prime and Peridot under a new entity called Niantic Spatial.
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DOTE (Department of Tweet Efficiency)
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Today Amazon said that it is ending support for its app store for Android devices. The company will continue to use the app store for its own devices like Fire TV and Fire Tablet, where the majority of the users interact with the store.
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Email client Superhuman is adding AI-powered labeling/categorization based on email content. The real kicker is that you can create your own labels through prompts. If this works well, it can mail sifting through inbox much easier.
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The future of printers is here
19.02.2025 06:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ll update the story with more tools but I haven’t come across folks using OneDrive as their photo backup tool
16.02.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well they said it is the department of government efficiency not computer efficiency
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BuzzFeed is launching is launching its own social network. You won’t believe what the 14th post says.
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Brother LinkedIN, I am not excited to share anything.
09.02.2025 07:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
People in Europe don’t mess around
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Meta moves fast. The company announced a new CapCut rival called Edits, while the ByteDance-owned app remains unavailable in the U.S.
The company had started testing Reels just days after TikTok got banned in India in 2020.
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One key difference between India TikTok ban and US TikTok ban is that in 2020, short video market didn’t have many competitors. People rushed to build short video apps after the ban. This also included Meta and Google coming up with their own short video products.
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