ElevenLabs Let's You Talk To Apps. Apple Buying Perplexity? Oakley Help Meta Make AI Glasses Cool.

AI News - June 23

ElevenLabs launch 11ai Manus adds Cloud Browser Apple might be buying Perplexity and Oakley and Meta join forces to create the coolest glasses yet. Here's today's AI news. ElevenLabs has unveiled 11ai the AI personal assistant that's voice first and supports MCP.

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You can connect to services like Perplexity and Slack, and you choose from more than 5,000 voices. The super low latency responses allow you to turn these services into conversational experiences, so the potential here is huge. Manus, the Agentic AI service, has added Cloud Browser, a feature that allows users to log into websites just once, after which Manas encrypts and saves the login status, enabling automatic access in future sessions.

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This is a typical issue with AI automation. The agent goes off to perform a task but is frequently blocked by a lack of access. Anything that makes this process simpler and more efficient is very welcome, and it shows how agentic style work is becoming more sophisticated. Bloomberg has reported that Apple executives have held internal discussions about potentially making a bid for Perplexity.

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Apple has been falling behind in the AI wars and this year's WWDC was a clear indicator of this. Perplexity was recently valued at, $14 billion. So it's an expensive acquisition, but if there's one thing Apple isn't falling behind on is funds. And finally, Oakley and Meta have teamed up to make the HSTN smart glasses featuring AI capabilities, 3K video recording and 8 hour battery life.

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The launch is focusing on some of the cool use cases for athletes and launched with a campaign featuring Gabriel Medina. The glasses will be priced from $399 to $499 with pre orders starting July 11th.