This week, we’re sharing a few trending news stories for the tech community.

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Voice AI has crossed into production. Deepgram’s 2025 State of Voice AI Report with Opus Research quantifies how 400 senior leaders - many at $100M+ enterprises - are budgeting, shipping, and measuring results.

Adoption is near-universal (97%), budgets are rising (84%), yet only 21% are very satisfied with legacy agents. And that gap is the opportunity: using human-like agents that handle real tasks, reduce wait times, and lift CSAT.

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Japanese conglomerate SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake to fund aggressive bets on OpenAI and other AI ventures, sparking debate about the company's investment strategy.

SoftBank announced Tuesday that it has completely exited its position in chipmaker Nvidia, selling 32.1 million shares for about $5.8 billion in October. The move comes as the Japanese investment giant doubles down on artificial intelligence through massive capital commitments elsewhere, including $22.5 billion earmarked for OpenAI and $6.5 billion for Ampere in the current quarter alone. The company also sold part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.17 billion, with executives framing these sales as part of a broader asset monetization strategy to maintain financial flexibility.

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