AI Flash News

AI news flash: Yat Siu warns that if you hand your personal schedule, family plans, travel planning, and even crypto investment advice to the same AI agent, it’s not just the agent that gets confused, you do too. He also points out that using an agent doesn’t automatically give you an edge: a thousand people asking an AI about the same trade may get roughly the same answer. Regulators have noticed, and the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee warned in April 2025 that widespread use of similar models…

AI news flash: Yelp is rolling out a new feature called Check for Me. Users enter a party size and a phone number on a restaurant page, and an AI voice agent calls the restaurant to ask about the wait time, then texts back the result so you can decide whether to head over. Yelp launched a voice agent plan for restaurants and service businesses last year, and this adds the consumer side. The original article also notes that a user’s agent may end up talking to a restaurant’s agent, …

AI news flash: On Tuesday, Otter.ai announced it raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). This type of funding doesn’t dilute equity, and the provider earns returns based on the results that marketing spend delivers, which is different from the traditional venture model of trading equity for capital…