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Fish Audio Completes $50 Million Seed Round to Advance AI Voice Model R&D and Enterprise Services
According to TechCrunch, AI voice model company Fish Audio announced the completion of a $50 million seed funding round, led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from institutions including 359 Capital, Parable, and Play Time. The company stated that its open-source and hosted models have currently accumulated over 8 million users, and annual recurring revenue has reached $21 million.
ElevenLabs and Stability AI Release New AI Music Models
Odaily Odaily News: Voice AI company ElevenLabs, founded in Poland, has released Music v2. This model can switch genres within the same track, generate songs by sections such as intro, verse, and chorus, and supports local redrawing of specified segments. Music v2 is now available on ElevenMusic and ElevenCreative, with early access to the ElevenAPI currently provided through the sales team. Stability AI has launched Stable Audio 3.0, which includes four models: Small SFX, Small, Medium, and Large. Three of these variants have open weights on Hugging Face. The series is trained on licensed data. The Medium model supports generating tracks up to 6 minutes and 20 seconds long, while the Large model is only available via the Stability AI API. ElevenLabs has signed licensing agreements with Believe, Kobalt, and Merlin. Stability AI has established partnerships with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. In November 2025, Suno was valued at $2.45 billion, with an annual recurring revenue exceeding $300 million, approximately 100 million users, and generating an average of about 7 million songs daily.
South Korea FSS Upgrades Anti-Fraud System, Crypto Assets Included in Voice Phishing Compensation Coverage
According to Cryptopolitan, South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has launched a three-month fraud refund system reconstruction project with a budget of approximately 119 million Korean won. This upgrade aims to align with the revised "Telecommunications Fraud Damage Compensation Act" amended on March 31 this year—the bill will officially take effect on October 1, formally incorporating virtual assets into the scope of "damaged property" and "refundable property." The new system will support calculating compensation amounts based on token type and quantity, using the Korean won value at the time funds were frozen as a reference benchmark, while also possessing the ability to disentangle mixed fraud funds across multiple accounts. Major exchanges such as Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and GOPAX will be required to assume anti-fraud and victim relief obligations equivalent to those of banks at that time, including verifying transaction purposes, monitoring suspicious funds, and freezing suspected accounts.
South Korea Includes 4 ICT Services Such as AI Voice Fraud Detection in Regulatory Sandbox Exceptions
According to Yonhap News, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced that, following written deliberation by the Second ICT Regulatory Sandbox Fast-Track Expert Committee, it approved four services for empirical special exception qualifications. Among them, the "Voiceprint Recognition Mobile Voice Fraud Detection Service" jointly applied for by Samsung Electronics and the National Forensic Service received the most attention — this service embeds an AI-trained voice fraud recognition model into mobile apps, capable of reminding users in real-time of suspected fraudulent calls; previously, as fraudsters' voiceprints were classified as personal information and could not be used without the consent of the concerned party, this special exception breaks this restriction.
Microsoft removes Mico from Copilot Voice and transfers him to the Learning Center as a tutor.
Microsoft has removed the anthropomorphic chatbot Mico from Copilot voice features and moved it to the Learn Live learning center to serve as a "tutor". The support page states that the interaction experience accumulated by Mico is shaping the future direction of Copilot, and Copilot voice interaction features remain available. Mico was launched in October 2025, enabled by default in voice mode, and previously included an Easter egg where clicking turns it into Clippy.
South Korea FSS Upgrades Anti-Fraud System, Crypto Assets Included in Voice Phishing Compensation Coverage
According to Cryptopolitan, South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has launched a three-month fraud refund system reconstruction project with a budget of approximately 119 million Korean won. This upgrade aims to align with the revised "Telecommunications Fraud Damage Compensation Act" amended on March 31 this year—the bill will officially take effect on October 1, formally incorporating virtual assets into the scope of "damaged property" and "refundable property." The new system will support calculating compensation amounts based on token type and quantity, using the Korean won value at the time funds were frozen as a reference benchmark, while also possessing the ability to disentangle mixed fraud funds across multiple accounts. Major exchanges such as Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and GOPAX will be required to assume anti-fraud and victim relief obligations equivalent to those of banks at that time, including verifying transaction purposes, monitoring suspicious funds, and freezing suspected accounts.
ByteDance Seed Releases Native Audio-Video Full-Duplex Model SeedRealtime
ByteDance Seed Team released SeedRealtime, a native audio-video full-duplex large model, now available on the Doubao App. The model unifies audio, video, and text within an end-to-end architecture, processing perception, understanding, decision-making, and expression in parallel, and internalizes turn-taking within the model, replacing external Voice Activity Detectors. Internal human evaluation at ByteDance shows that its rhythm issues are halved compared to cascaded architectures, but no technical report, parameter scale, open-source weights, or API have been released.
Qwen App Update Introduces Five New Features
The Qwen App and PC client have launched new features, introducing multiple new functions such as Thinking & Research, Scheduled Tasks, Office Assistant, Agent Marketplace, and Voice Calls, while supporting Alibaba's latest flagship model Qwen3.8-MAX. All users can use the above features for free.
GPT-5.6 and Gemini 3.5 Pro Reportedly Delayed to July Release, OpenAI’s New Voice Model May Launch This Week
Tech blogger @synthwavedd has stated that several highly anticipated cutting-edge AI models have adjusted their release schedules. Among them, GPT-5.6, originally slated for a near-term release, has been postponed to mid-July, while Google DeepMind has canceled the planned late-June launch of Gemini 3.5 Pro due to dissatisfaction with the model’s current performance.Meanwhile, preparations for the launch of OpenAI’s new-generation bidirectional voice model, Bidi, are progressing on the ChatGPT platform, with availability to users potentially coming as early as this week. Reports indicate that Bidi supports full-duplex voice interaction, allowing users to speak simultaneously with the model and interrupt the conversation at any time, marking a significant upgrade over existing voice modes.Additionally, Anthropic has granted early access to its Claude Sonnet 5 model for select enterprise clients. As the release progress of flagship models Mythos 5 and Fable 5 has slowed, Claude Sonnet 5 is seen as an interim product solution for Anthropic to alleviate competitive pressure.
ElevenLabs and Stability AI Release New AI Music Models
Odaily Odaily News: Voice AI company ElevenLabs, founded in Poland, has released Music v2. This model can switch genres within the same track, generate songs by sections such as intro, verse, and chorus, and supports local redrawing of specified segments. Music v2 is now available on ElevenMusic and ElevenCreative, with early access to the ElevenAPI currently provided through the sales team. Stability AI has launched Stable Audio 3.0, which includes four models: Small SFX, Small, Medium, and Large. Three of these variants have open weights on Hugging Face. The series is trained on licensed data. The Medium model supports generating tracks up to 6 minutes and 20 seconds long, while the Large model is only available via the Stability AI API. ElevenLabs has signed licensing agreements with Believe, Kobalt, and Merlin. Stability AI has established partnerships with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. In November 2025, Suno was valued at $2.45 billion, with an annual recurring revenue exceeding $300 million, approximately 100 million users, and generating an average of about 7 million songs daily.
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South Korean ASAP Platform Intercepts 66 Billion Won in Fraud Over 9 Months
According to Yonhap News Agency, since its launch about 9 months ago, South Korea's Voice Fraud Information Sharing and Analysis AI Platform ASAP has taken payment suspension measures on over 7,000 accounts and prevented approximately 66 billion Korean won in losses.
Reddit Tests AI Voice Feature, Automatically Converting Forum Posts into Audio and Video Content
According to The Verge, Reddit is conducting a new experiment to automatically convert text posts and comments on the platform into audio-video content using AI voice technology. During video playback, the text being read aloud is highlighted synchronously and labeled "Real conversation dubbed by AI". Users can freely switch between "Read" and "Play" modes via the toggle button at the top of the page.
Microsoft removes Mico from Copilot Voice and transfers him to the Learning Center as a tutor.
Microsoft has removed the anthropomorphic chatbot Mico from Copilot voice features and moved it to the Learn Live learning center to serve as a "tutor". The support page states that the interaction experience accumulated by Mico is shaping the future direction of Copilot, and Copilot voice interaction features remain available. Mico was launched in October 2025, enabled by default in voice mode, and previously included an Easter egg where clicking turns it into Clippy.
South Korea FSS Upgrades Anti-Fraud System, Crypto Assets Included in Voice Phishing Compensation Coverage
According to Cryptopolitan, South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has launched a three-month fraud refund system reconstruction project with a budget of approximately 119 million Korean won. This upgrade aims to align with the revised "Telecommunications Fraud Damage Compensation Act" amended on March 31 this year—the bill will officially take effect on October 1, formally incorporating virtual assets into the scope of "damaged property" and "refundable property." The new system will support calculating compensation amounts based on token type and quantity, using the Korean won value at the time funds were frozen as a reference benchmark, while also possessing the ability to disentangle mixed fraud funds across multiple accounts. Major exchanges such as Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and GOPAX will be required to assume anti-fraud and victim relief obligations equivalent to those of banks at that time, including verifying transaction purposes, monitoring suspicious funds, and freezing suspected accounts.
ByteDance Seed Releases Native Audio-Video Full-Duplex Model SeedRealtime
ByteDance Seed Team released SeedRealtime, a native audio-video full-duplex large model, now available on the Doubao App. The model unifies audio, video, and text within an end-to-end architecture, processing perception, understanding, decision-making, and expression in parallel, and internalizes turn-taking within the model, replacing external Voice Activity Detectors. Internal human evaluation at ByteDance shows that its rhythm issues are halved compared to cascaded architectures, but no technical report, parameter scale, open-source weights, or API have been released.
Qwen App Update Introduces Five New Features
The Qwen App and PC client have launched new features, introducing multiple new functions such as Thinking & Research, Scheduled Tasks, Office Assistant, Agent Marketplace, and Voice Calls, while supporting Alibaba's latest flagship model Qwen3.8-MAX. All users can use the above features for free.