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OpenAI’s Bets On AI Health Assistant, ElevenLabs Launches Iconic Voice Marketplace & Scribe v2 and more...
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November 12, 2025
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OpenAI’s quietly building an AI health companion that could live in your pocket, blending empathy, advice, and data. The age of voice-as-a-service is officially here and guess what, ElevenLabs is bringing it on with celebrity voices.
In today’s issue:
🤯 OpenAI’s Next Big Bet: A Personal AI Health Assistant
📈 ElevenLabs Launches Iconic Voice Marketplace & Scribe v2
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
📰 What Else Happened in AI
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What Happened (Nov 10 2025) :
OpenAI is quietly developing AI-powered health tools that could evolve into a “digital doctor” — a personal medical assistant that listens, learns, and advises. Recent hires, including Nate Gross (co-founder of Doximity) and Ashley Alexander (ex-Instagram exec), hint at a serious move into healthcare.
What You Need to Know:
The project targets consumer health — integrating advice, monitoring, and preventive insights.
Jony Ive, Apple’s former chief designer, is reportedly consulting on a device that blends sensors, voice, and minimalist design.
Silicon Valley’s earlier health pushes (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) failed over privacy and regulation—OpenAI’s challenge is different: trust.
Alongside, the company launched a free year of ChatGPT Plus for U.S. veterans within 12 months of active service, helping with jobs, housing, and education.
CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that AI can “write flawless poetry but not feel emotion,” emphasizing human creativity still matters.
Why It Matters:
Healthcare is one of AI’s hardest frontiers—high stakes, high regulation, and even higher potential. If OpenAI succeeds, it could redefine the doctor-patient relationship—but will need to convince users and regulators it can be trusted with their most personal data.
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What Happened (Nov 11, 2025):
ElevenLabs unveiled two major moves: the Iconic Voice Marketplace, where brands can license AI-generated voices of celebrities (like Michael Caine) with rights-holder consent; and Scribe v2 Realtime, a transcription platform supporting 90+ languages with enterprise-grade data compliance.
What You Need to Know:
The voice marketplace currently offers 28 verified celebrity voices, ensuring they're ethically licensed.
Scribe v2 supports multilingual transcription, with data residency in EU and India, and complies with HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001.
ElevenLabs grew ARR from $100 million at end of 2024 to $200 million by Aug 2025.
The broader AI voice-generator market was valued around $3.5 billion in 2023 and is expected to exceed $20 billion by 2030.
These tools are designed for creators, advertisers and brands aiming to scale high-quality voice content globally.
Why It Matters:
With ARR doubling within a year and a voice-AI market projected to grow over 6× by 2030, ElevenLabs is riding a major wave in content creation. The combination of celebrity voice licensing + enterprise-grade transcription could turn voice-AI into a $10-20 billion annual business.
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3-THINGS IN TREND
ChatGPT is making homework easier but finding jobs harder for students at the university.
A Japanese creator shared a workflow that shows you how to create realistic AI videos from images, in a post that has now gone viral.
A film director shows how Higgsfield’s new Recast AI tool can let you swap entire characters in a movie. See Brad Pitt in the movie 1917.
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WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🔗 Wikipedia Calls for AI Attribution & Compensation
The Wikimedia Foundation says Wikipedia is essential training data for AI and is urging developers to both credit the site’s contributors and pay for use via its Enterprise platform.
📺 Samsung Debuts Vision AI Companion in TVs
Samsung’s 2025 TV lineup now includes Vision AI Companion—integrating a revamped Bixby assistant with Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity for smarter conversation and discovery.
💼 Blue Owl & OpenAI Partner on 4.5 GW Data Center
Wall Street lender Blue Owl Capital is investing $3 billion into a New Mexico data center for OpenAI’s “Stargate,” while banks are lined up to fund an additional $18 billion toward 4.5 GW of capacity.
🔒 Google Launches Private AI Compute Platform
Google introduced Private AI Compute: a cloud service running Gemini models in hardware-secure enclaves to ensure user data remains private and proprietary.
⚖️ OpenAI Loses Landmark Copyright Case in Germany
A Munich court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT illegally trained on German song lyrics without a licence, marking a major precedent for AI copyright law in Europe.
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SoftBank shares slide as Nvidia stake sale highlights AI funding needs
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