Calendly, the scheduling software company, has launched a meeting note-taking product that records, transcribes, and generates summaries and action items, with an AI assistant named Callie planned to …
AI notetakers such as Otter, Zoom, and Granola are now ubiquitous in meetings, but executive coach and Fast Company contributor suggests they can do more than summarize. In a recent article, she outli…
A new analysis of ChatGPT's network traffic reveals that the AI writes its own search queries containing brand names before any web search occurs, and being named in that initial query is worth about …
Comu, the Silicon Valley AI startup formerly known as Comulytic, launched the Comu Action Pro, a pocket gadget with a dedicated AI button that turns conversations into presentations, emails, summaries…
ChatGPT writes brand names into its own search queries before fetching any web pages, according to an analysis of 60 conversations by an unnamed author. The author found that being named in ChatGPT's …
Wispr Flow, the AI dictation app, has launched a meeting notetaker for Mac that uses system audio to transcribe meetings without joining them, cleans up transcripts, creates action items, and lets use…
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal told Platformer on July 31 that his company has turned down enterprise contracts where buyers requested admin surveillance access to employee meeting notes, positioning the …
A company using ChatGPT to analyze raw sales and support call transcripts discovered that customer sentiment from surveys is misleading, with transcripts revealing complaints about slow response times…
Travis Kalanick's industrial automation company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion and is staffing a physical AI empire, with 55 open positions on its Greenhouse board as of Wednesday. The hiring push, ann…
Ricardo Figueroa, a solo developer, launched AI Assist, a $3 one-time meeting notes tool that runs locally in the browser with no bot joining calls, using users' own Anthropic and OpenAI API keys for …
Users can block uninvited AI meeting bots from Microsoft Teams, Notion, Read AI, Otter, and Fireflies by revoking calendar access, adjusting auto-join settings, and using admin controls. For Microsoft…
Granola offers iOS and Android apps that capture in-person conversations through a phone's microphone, producing a transcript, summary, and action items. The tool addresses the limitation of bot-based…
Granola offers a bot-free AI notepad that transcribes meetings via device audio, enhancing user notes with transcript context while keeping participants at ease. Fireflies and Fathom are better for hi…
A guide published in June 2026 outlines three methods to transcribe Zoom meetings without triggering recording notifications: using Zoom's live captions (requires host enablement and manual saving), s…
Sales call recording software falls into three categories: conversation intelligence platforms like Gong, basic call recording, and AI notepads like Granola. Gong costs $1,300-$1,600 per user per year…
Off Grid AI Desktop is a free, open-source app that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings on a user's Mac or PC without sending data to external servers. The app uses Whisper for transcription…
Zoom's free plan lacks native transcription, but five genuinely free third-party methods exist in 2026, including Granola which captures device audio without a visible bot. Most alternatives are free …
Apple's native iPhone apps like Notes and Voice Memos capture audio but require manual post-processing to create structured meeting notes, while AI-powered apps like Granola, Otter, and Minutes offer …
A developer spent three weeks testing AI note-taking tools Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, and smaller players on real meetings. Fathom was kept for client calls due to its clean post-meeting experience, wh…
Plaud, a bootstrapped hardware company, has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue after shipping over 2 million AI notetaker devices. The San Francisco-based firm, founded in 2021, competes…