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Alex Banks

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Founder and Writer at The Signal

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  • ElevenLabs Talks the Talk, Mistral Goes Agentic, and Claude Breaks the Silence

    1 week ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

    My top-3 picks of AI news this week. ElevenLabs team / ElevenLabsElevenLabs1. ElevenLabs Talks the Talk ElevenLabs has launched Conversational AI 2.0, a major upgrade to their voice agent platform that delivers enterprise-grade capabilities and more human-like interactions. Natural turn-taking: Advanced models that understand conversational cues like "um" and "ah" to seamlessly handle interruptions and pauses, creating fluid dialogue flow.

  • Google’s AI Takeover, Microsoft’s Agent Army, and Claude 4 Drops the Mic

    2 weeks ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

    My top-3 picks of AI news this week. Sundar Pichai / Google I/O 2025Google1. Google’s AI Takeover Google's annual I/O conference showcased how the company is rapidly transforming AI research into practical, widely available tools and features. Google Search: AI mode is starting to roll out in Google Search, starting with all users in the US. This provides a Perplexity-like interface, and perhaps marks the end of search engines once and for all.

  • U.S.-Saudi AI Alliance, OpenAI Multiplies Coders, and Google’s AlphaEvolve Breakthrough

    3 weeks ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

    My top-3 picks of AI news this week. U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman / ReutersMiddle East AI Partnerships1. U.S.-Saudi AI Alliance Takes Shape This week's U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Riyadh showcased a growing partnership in artificial intelligence between the two nations, alongside Saudi Arabia’s launch of Humain, a new AI venture backed by its $940 billion Public Investment Fund (PIF).

  • OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf Play, Gemini 2.5 Pro Came Early, and Mistral AI “Medium Is the New Large”

    4 weeks ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

    My top-3 picks of AI news this week. OpenAI1. OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf Play OpenAI has agreed to acquire Windsurf (formerly Codeium), an AI-assisted coding editor, for approximately $3 billion, marking OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date. Rapid valuation growth: Windsurf was valued at $1.25 billion just last August following a $150 million funding round led by General Catalyst, representing a 2.4x increase in valuation in less than a year.

  • Claude Connects Your Tech Stack, Meet Neuralink’s Third Patient, and Inside Meta’s Llamacon

    1 month ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

    My top-3 picks of AI news this week. New York Times / Andrea ChronopoulosAnthropic1. Claude connects your tech stack Anthropic has released Integrations, allowing Claude to connect directly with popular workplace tools and enabling developers to create custom connections to virtually any platform. Pre-built connections: Claude can now integrate with Asana, Intercom, Linear, Zapier, Atlassian, Square, and PayPal, gaining deep context about projects, tasks, and organisational knowledge.

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