Agentic AI: the next big thing?

Trends in AI that will shape 2025 🔥🔥🔥

Top Updates 💪

• Vonage upgrades VCC Intelligent Workspace with AI tools to boost productivity

• McAfee brings McAfee deepfake detector to select HP Copilot+ PCs

• HubSpot’s acquisition of Frame.ai bolsters Breeze & its AI scalability

• AI Live Interpretation: breaking language barriers in Call Centers

• Voices brings interactive voice-over experiences to CES 2025

• Kokoro-82M offers lightweight, high-quality speech synthesis

• Sketch2Sound: AI can now generate sound effects from your hums

• Carecode raises $4.3 M for AI-powered customer service in healthcare

Noteworthy 💪

• Why agentic AI is the next big thing in business transformation?

• Cybercrime surge in India: AI voice cloning and digital arrest scams on the rise

• AI agents poised to unlock the full potential of virtual assistants

• Bing Copilot vs. ChatGPT: Which AI tool is best?

• The effect of AI agents on the job market in 2025

• Is AI making call center agents better or replacing them?

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Science and Demo Corner 😎

• Building an AI interactive voice agent with Gemini Multimodal Live & Twilio

• Multi-head attention-enhanced speech recognition for reduced data requirements

• Adaptive fusion transformer with a sparse attention for audio–visual ASR

• Indonesian voice cloning TTS with Vall-E-based model and speech enhancement

• Module-based end-to-end distant speech processing: A case study of far-field ASR