Open source AI cannot be banned, argues a new analysis, as the technology's decentralized nature makes prohibition impractical. The piece highlights that attempts to restrict open source AI would stif…
A cohort of public software companies including Dropbox, Zoom, DocuSign, and PagerDuty are now growing under 5%, and the market has stopped pricing them as durable annuities. Dropbox grew 0.8% last qu…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed on July 16, and the 8B model immediately landed at #1 on RTEB with a score of 78.5%, topping Voyage 4 Large, OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, and Cohere embed-v4. The mo…
Sutando, an open-source AI stand that operates in realtime and rewrites itself, shipped an update. The tool, written primarily in Python and last updated in July 2026, offers voice, vision, screen, me…
Cisco reports its collaboration devices business is growing more than 30 percent year to date, making it the number one provider of intelligent workplace devices at nearly double the size of its close…
Zoom reported Q1 FY2027 revenue of $1.239B, up 5.5% YoY, with AI Companion paid users growing 184% and enterprise revenue reaching $755.7M, now 61% of total. The company's market cap stands at ~$27B, …
Granola, an AI notepad that captures device audio locally without a visible recording bot, is the best tool for sensitive Zoom conversations where candor matters, according to a July 17 guide. The too…
A new category of AI cheating tools, including Cluely, Interview Coder, and Final Round AI, uses invisible GPU overlays to render LLM-generated answers on a candidate's monitor beneath the screen-shar…
AgentCall, a new tool from Pattern AI, lets any AI agent join Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams as a live participant with voice, video, and screenshare capabilities. The agent runs locally on th…
Granola, a note-taking tool, captures client-call audio on a user's device without joining as a visible participant, preserving conversational candor. The tool provides transcripts, summaries, and act…
Granola captures Zoom meeting audio on a user's device without joining as a participant, eliminating the need for a bot or host-dependent AI features. The tool provides a transcript, summary, and acti…
AI notetakers that record, transcribe, and summarize virtual meetings are raising privacy and security concerns among professionals, who worry about data storage, voiceprint creation without consent, …
AI note-taking tools fall into three archetypes: bot-based assistants that join calls as visible participants, local-first AI notepads that capture device audio without a visible bot, and platform-nat…
Fathom, a popular AI meeting notes tool, now caps AI summaries at five per month on its free plan, raised Premium pricing by 33% in early 2026, and was acquired by QuestionPro in April 2026, creating …
Calnode, a self-hostable open-source scheduling app combining booking, video calls, and recording in a single Go binary, launched with AI-native conversational booking and an MCP server for agent inte…
A new comparison guide positions Siplinx AI as the top tl;dv alternative for privacy-conscious users, offering on-device transcription that never sends audio to a server. The guide notes that tl;dv's …
Amotions launched an AI Zoom app that provides real-time guidance during sales calls, helping users ask better questions, handle objections, and stay aligned with their sales playbook. The app is visi…
HubSpot scrapped a plan to use customer data for an AI feature after a four-day revolt, reversing a policy that opted users in by default. The CRM firm apologized and said any future data use would be…
Stitch, a free open-source desktop app, launches to manage emails, record meetings, track tasks, and automate workflows locally without cloud dependency. The app runs on macOS and Windows, supports mu…
A developer released AssistantAI, an open-source desktop AI assistant that captures audio from apps like Zoom and Teams, generates context-aware responses using attached documents, and analyzes screen…