1. OpenAI shipped a reasoning voice API with Parloa and Uber already running on it OpenAI released new realtime voice models in its API and pushed out two enterprise case studies, Parloa and Uber, the same day.

2. OpenAI's president read his own 'greedy' diary entries to a jury, the same week ChatGPT started serving ads Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's president, took the stand in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company and was handed his own private journal.

3. Five Million Motherboards ASUS Won't Ship in 2025. The Foundry Capacity Went to AI Motherboard sales across the enthusiast PC market collapsed by more than 25% in 2025, according to a Tom's Hardware report describing the shortages as unprecedented.

In Brief

• Apple's camera-equipped AirPods enter design validation testing Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple testers are using prototype AirPods with cameras at the design validation stage, one step before production validation. The cameras aren't built for photos but for feeding visual data to onboard AI models.

• Google launched the $99 Fitbit Air screenless tracker with AI coaching Google released a screenless metallic-fabric band priced at $99, positioned against Whoop's subscription tracker. The Fitbit Air ships with AI-driven health coaching tied to Google Health's wearables push.

• Perplexity opened its Personal Computer Mac agent to all users Perplexity removed the waitlist on Personal Computer for Mac, letting any user run AI agents that operate the desktop. The product previously sat in limited rollout.

• Aurora scaled commercial driverless trucks from a handful to hundreds Aurora began commercial driverless freight runs between Dallas and Houston in April and plans to operate hundreds of trucks by year-end. CEO Chris Urmson said the company is now in scale-up mode after a decade of trials.

• DeepMind shipped AlphaEvolve research findings across business and science DeepMind detailed how its Gemini-powered AlphaEvolve agent has produced algorithmic improvements in infrastructure and scientific domains. The blog post catalogs deployments where the agent's outputs reached production code.

• Bumble announced it is removing the swipe in favor of an AI dating assistant CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd confirmed Bumble will eliminate its signature swipe mechanic. The company is building an AI dating assistant called Bee to replace browsing-based matching.

• OpenAI added Trusted Contact opt-in safety feature to ChatGPT OpenAI shipped Trusted Contact, an optional setting that notifies a user-designated person when ChatGPT detects serious self-harm signals. The feature is opt-in and routes alerts only with prior user consent.

• Singular Bank deployed ChatGPT and Codex assistant cutting 60–90 minutes per banker daily Singular Bank built Singularity, an internal assistant on ChatGPT and Codex that handles meeting prep, portfolio analysis, and follow-ups. The bank reports bankers save 60 to 90 minutes per day on those tasks.

• Voi co-founders raised $16M seed for AI startup Pit, a16z leading Andreessen Horowitz led a $16 million seed round into Pit, a Stockholm AI startup founded by the team behind scooter operator Voi. The round closed without product disclosure.

• Save to Spotify CLI tool lets AI agents publish generated podcasts A new command-line utility called Save to Spotify exports AI-generated audio from agents like Claude Code, OpenClaw, and OpenAI Codex directly into Spotify libraries. The tool targets users who feed research into AI to create personal audio summaries.

• OpenSearch-VL released as open-source recipe for multimodal search agents Researchers published OpenSearch-VL, a fully open training pipeline including data, trajectory synthesis, and recipes for multimodal deep search agents. Top-tier search agents have remained hard to reproduce due to closed training data.

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