KORDUROYWednesday, July 29, 2026 · Run 2 · 1:02 PM ET
Real-Time Voice Cloning Ships, Perplexity Goes Agentic on Windows, and AI Labs Go Book Shopping
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TL;DR
- Fish Audio's new S2.1 Pro clones any voice live in conversation, backed by $52M in fresh seed funding.
- Perplexity's agentic Computer tool now runs on Windows across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with a multi-model Model Council including Kimi K3.
- A judge ruled Anthropic's book-buy-then-scan training approach is fair use, and bulk buyers are now cleaning out used bookstores of pre-2022 titles.
AI Tips2
Record a reusable Claude skill from any repeat task
- Open the Claude desktop app → Cowork, click + → Record a skill, grant screen recording permissions, and click Start Recording.
- Perform the task once, start to finish, narrating it out loud using the template below.
- Claude packages the narration into a saved skill you can run later with /your-skill-name, or ask it to schedule the skill to run automatically.
I'm doing [TASK] to achieve [GOAL]. First, I [ACTION] because [REASON]. Next, I [ACTION] so that [OUTCOME]. If [CONDITION] happens, I [ALTERNATIVE ACTION]. This is the most important rule: [RULE OR DECISION]. Ignore any clicks or tabs that aren't part of this workflow. When the task is complete, verify that [SUCCESS CRITERIA].
Source: Superhuman AI
Use Claude to dispute an inflated medical bill
- Upload a photo or PDF of the itemized bill to Claude.
- Ask it to flag duplicated, miscoded, or inconsistent line items.
- Have it draft a dispute letter citing the discrepancies.
- Send it to the provider or insurer and follow up.
Source: Superhuman AI
AI News3
Fish Audio launched S2.1 Pro, a voice model that clones any voice and speaks in it live during a conversation
The one-year-old startup has built a 2M+ voice community library, hit $21M in annual recurring revenue, and just raised $52M in seed funding.
Why it mattersReal-time voice cloning is now demo-ready, not a lab curiosity. Add voice-verification steps to any process that still authorizes by phone, and flag the fraud risk to clients running call centers.
Source: Superhuman AI
Perplexity's agentic "Computer" tool now works with local files on Windows,
Including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and gained a "Model Council" feature that cross-checks answers across multiple LLMs, including the newly released Kimi K3.
Why it mattersAnother agentic desktop tool is moving into everyday Office work, worth a bake-off before recommending a single-vendor agent stack.
Source: Superhuman AI
Used bookstores report bulk buyers snapping up pre-2022, low-circulation books,
Widely believed to be AI labs sourcing clean, non-AI-generated training data. A US judge recently ruled that Anthropic's practice of buying and scanning books for training under its Project Panama program is fair use, as long as the books were legally acquired.
Why it mattersLegally-sourced training data now has real court backing, worth raising when a client asks due-diligence questions about where a vendor's model was trained.
Source: Superhuman AI
Summarized from Superhuman AI (Jul 29)
