Voice AI Goes Open Source — And a Court Checks the Pentagon 2026-03-27

Mistral released Voxtral TTS, an open-weight voice model rivaling ElevenLabs, the same day Google shipped Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. Voice AI is commoditizing fast. Also: a federal judge blocked the Pentagon's Anthropic designation, Apple may let users choose AI chatbots for Siri, and senators push for data center energy disclosure.

Mistral releases Voxtral TTS, a 3-billion-parameter open-weight text-to-speech model supporting 9 languages TechCrunch |