Former Plaud executive raises $26 million for background listening AI app
Original titleFormer Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background
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A former executive from Plaud raised $26 million for an AI app that continuously listens to users in the background. Tech companies argue that gathering context through constant monitoring of user activity is necessary to provide better assistance and suggestions.
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One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you'll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch, or record users' activity all the time and gather all possible context.