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213 posts
2026
A Frontier Model Goes Dark, Voice AI Keeps MovingOriginalClaude Fable 5 was shut down by government directive 72 hours after launch. Microsoft's voice stack shipped at Build. Deepgram kept shipping infrastructure. A roundup of the week.AI
Anthropic's IPO, NVIDIA open-weights, and AI's $36B betOriginalFable 5 ate the news cycle, but that same week saw Anthropic's IPO, NVIDIA's open model, and a chip deal reshaping AI finance.AI
When Your Drive-Thru AI Can't Understand an AccentOriginalMcDonald's pulled its AI drive-thru pilot in 2024 because it couldn't handle regional accents. By mid-2026, the industry was still figuring out why.Voice AI
Three STT Strategies, One MarketOriginalBy June 2026 every major STT provider hit acceptable accuracy. The real competition moved to multilingual support, turn detection and platform integration.Voice AI
Inside the Voice Agent Pipeline: STT, LLM, and Streaming TTSOriginalHow STT transcribes audio, an LLM generates responses, and streaming TTS speaks them back. A technical breakdown of the real-time pipeline behind voice agents in 2026.Voice AI
TIL: Flux natively knows when a caller finishes speakingOriginalDeepgram Flux turn detection replaces VAD and silence timeouts with model-native EndOfTurn events. A single WebSocket config parameter simplifies voice agent turn-taking.Voice AI
Microsoft shipped 7 MAI models and AI hit $580BOriginalAI funding hit $581.7B in 2025. Microsoft shipped 7 MAI models. Apple chose privacy at WWDC. Deepgram kept shipping. Stories from a week that shifted AI.AI
Sunday roundup: afterthoughts on productivity and paceOriginalA short Sunday roundup reflecting on this week's post about ADHD and productivity, what Deepgram shipped, and what's coming next week on lukeocodes.dev.Developer Experience
Six tools that power production voice agentsOriginalBuilding a production voice agent takes more than an API key. Here are six tools I reached for daily at Deepgram, from streaming STT to async Python.Developer Experience
Testing Voice AI Means Talking to Yourself in PublicOriginalBuilding voice AI means reading test sentences aloud in coffee shops, on trains, and in meetings you forgot to mute. It looks as ridiculous as it sounds.Voice AI