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Voice actor and comedian @HJBenjamin talks work habits ("the sad reality is that I work about 6 hours out of the week") and bad business ideas ("Leftovers, the restaurant") at #WSJFutureFest#

Grok Voice just ranked #1# on Vapi’s Humanness Index and it's scary good That is a huge deal This benchmark is simple: Listeners hear blind same-voice battles and pick which voice sounds more human Grok TTS scored 100 in humanness matching the human baseline That means Grok is reaching human-level voice quality on one of the most important benchmarks for real AI agents And Grok is doing this at $15 per 1M characters, while major competitors listed on the leaderboard are charging $60–$100 xAI is building world's best voice layers for real AI agents

Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 now ranks #1# on the Artificial Analysis τ-Voice benchmark for real-world agentic customer service resolution It is outperforming GPT-Realtime-2 (High) and Gemini 3.1 Flash by a significant margin while already being deployed in real-world operations What’s especially impressive is that Grok Voice is actively handling customer interactions through natural speech for Starlink and many enterprise operations in the real world......providing AI services entirely through voice

Japanese voice actor Kazuki Atsumi, 31, has been arrested by Tokyo police on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. Investigators say he met the girl two years earlier while working at a temporary child protection shelter where she had stayed. Police allege the assaults occurred around 30 times at a hotel in Tokyo during May. Reports say Atsumi admitted to the acts and knew the girl was under 16, Japan’s legal age of consent. Atsumi had minor roles in the anime My Dress-Up Darling and Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider. After the arrest, his agency, Mausu Promotion, ended his contract and removed his profile from its website. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which oversees the shelter, apologized for the incident and said it is investigating whether any other children at the facility may have been affected.