TechCrunch
On a restaurant page in Yelp's app you can enter a party size and phone number, and an AI voice agent calls the restaurant to ask about the wait, then texts you the answer. The same update adds an OpenTable booking integration and an assistant that remembers preferences from earlier chats.
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The Decoder
Proteins work by shape, and a small protein whose shape fits a toxin can block it. Working inside Anthropic's Claude Science environment, Claude generated 318,484 candidate binders for toxins from four scorpion species; of 211 tested in the lab, 17 met the criteria, with two attaching tightly to a Mexican scorpion toxin. Whether they protect patients is untested.
The Verge
Gemini in cars can now draw on your Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube and Search, so you can ask about a flight and have it find the confirmation email and look up the status. Google turns this on only if you enable Personal Intelligence, answers are tailored only while your phone is connected, and the rollout starts with Android Auto.
The Decoder
A voice agent must hear you, decide what to say and reply fast enough to feel like a conversation. Mistral's Voxtral 3 bundles a speech-to-text model, a text-to-speech model and a developer kit built on LiveKit into one streaming pipeline, transcribes more than 50 languages, and lets agents call outside tools mid-call, on your own servers if you prefer.
The Decoder
COBOL and Fortran are old languages with little public code to learn from, yet they still run much of banking and science software. OpenAI built tests that ask models to write a database engine in 20 languages and to translate COBOL into modern code; it says GPT-6 passes 87.4 percent of tests on average and reaches up to 97.9 percent accuracy on COBOL migration.