Google has released AI Edge Foresight, a Granola-style Mac meeting note-taker that works fully offline on its on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. The Verge reported it is free and experimental, so teams barred from cloud transcription can pilot it cheaply.
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buildOne report1 publisher Superhuman agrees to buy Fathom after testing its own notetaker on selected users
Superhuman put an internally built meeting notetaker in front of a limited group earlier in 2026 and concluded the category was harder to build than it looked. The hard part is capture, attribution and permissions.
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Pixel 11 Pro XL: the upgrade you can feel is shutter lag and a dictation tool
TechCrunch's reviewer found snappier cameras, a dictation feature good enough to write with, and a rear notification light that does not signal texts.
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Wispr's $280M at $2B says the bottleneck is the text box, not the model
Menlo Ventures led a round that more than tripled Wispr's lifetime funding in one go, on the back of a speech model the company says cuts word error rates by two thirds or better.
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The startup says a new model, Canto, will cut error rates from 30% to under 10% after weeks of user complaints. It is also entering meeting notes, where three incumbents already sit.
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Wispr's $280M bet: voice input's problem is accuracy, not appetite
The Series B values the dictation app at $2 billion and funds a push into meeting notes, a category where two of the four rivals Wispr names are already in California court.
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Wispr raised $280 million at a $2 billion valuation six months after its last round. Its lead investor says the competitive set is every text box in front of an AI model.
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