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NextCommerce News Brief

Voice AI Is Becoming a Data-Quality Competition

Rime raised a $24 million Series A to build enterprise voice models, making a case that proprietary conversational data and linguistic craft will separate credible systems from uncanny demos.

Julie Wohlberg Jul 15, 2026 2 min read

NextTech News Brief

GPT-Live Makes Voice AI More Conversational—and More Present

OpenAI’s new voice models can listen and speak at the same time, maintain conversational flow and hand difficult questions to a frontier model in the background.

Kevin Laird Jul 8, 2026 2 min read

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