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Block's Dessa voice AI runs locally on a MacBook

Dessa, a voice model trained on human speech. Plus: banks vs AI agents, Elvis suit, and OpenAI undercutting Anthropic.

Top story

Model ReleaseEveryone covered this

Block's new voice AI Dessa was trained entirely on human speech and runs locally on a MacBook.

Block unveiled Dessa, a voice model aimed at the part of conversation most assistants miss: people talk over each other and laugh before the punchline lands. Block says it was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss, and that it can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max. Reports say it talks, laughs and cries in a human way. Those descriptions come from Block's launch and press coverage, not independent tests.

Our take

Local voice is the interesting part. If it holds up, a natural voice no longer needs a cloud round trip.

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The rest, ranked

  1. Safety & SecurityA handful of outlets picked this up

    1. Follow-up: Some US banks say AI agents are logging into customer accounts with the customer's own credentials.

    Executives say they struggle to tell an agent sent by the customer from a rogue one, and that even with the customer's OK, this breaks most banks' rules.

    Full story
  2. Policy & LawWidely covered

    2. Anthropic was sued over training on Elvis Presley music.

    Rightsholders say it used 274 songs without permission.

    Full story
  3. Quiet signal
    Funding & BusinessBarely covered

    3. OpenAI's price cuts are pulling coding work away from Anthropic.

    At Rippling, Anthropic models handled 57% of coding work in May and 18% now, while OpenAI went from 16% to 52%, CEO Parker Conrad said. A report says Replit moved most of its AI spend to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+ a year.

    Full story
  4. Chips & InfraBarely covered

    4. Amazon is reportedly taking early delivery of about $5 billion in Nvidia AI racks, but power shortages leave some sites unable to run them.

    The report is secondhand and unconfirmed by Amazon in the sources we saw.

    Full story
  5. Chips & InfraA handful of outlets picked this up

    5. Tesla and Nvidia are reported to bankroll a $2.8 billion Samsung substrate buildout.

    Reports frame substrates as AI's next shortage.

    Full story
  6. Dev ToolsBarely covered

    6. Cursor's agent can now click and type across desktop apps, including the iOS Simulator, to test what it builds.

    It can trigger automatically or when you mention Computer Use. Grant access to the helper app only.

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  7. Dev ToolsAlmost nobody caught this

    7. Google's Data Agent Kit is generally available.

    It is free and bundles MCP tools and 37 open-source skills linking coding agents to more than fifteen Google Data Cloud services. A skill asking an agent to stop is not the same as an IAM deny policy that refuses the call.

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By category

Top stories in each category today, ranked.

  1. Amazon AWS cloud capacity sold out through 2027, Andy Jassy says amid AI boom
  2. Amazon to Take Early Delivery of About $5 Billion in NVIDIA AI Racks as Power Shortages Leave Some Sites Unable to Run Them
  3. Tesla and Nvidia just found another AI bottleneck
  4. Amazon’s AWS Has Already Sold “a Good Chunk” of 2028 Capacity
  5. US AI data center projects face delays, rising costs amid grid issues

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