Would you sell your voice to AI?

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🚀 AI Adoption Soars in 2025 DORA Report

🤩Your photo deserves to move.

🧠 AI Passes CFA Level III in Record Time

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

📱 Neon App Pays for Phone Call Recordings, Then Sells the Data to AI

Neon Mobile has surged to the No. 2 spot on Apple’s U.S. App Store Social Networking chart, enticing users with payments for recording their phone calls. The app promises up to $30 per day and pays 30¢ per minute for calls to other Neon users, rapidly climbing from rank 476 to the top 10 overall in just days.

The Shift:

1️⃣ Rapid Rise & Monetization Model - Neon markets itself as a way to earn “hundreds or thousands of dollars per year” by granting access to recorded calls. It claims to capture only the user’s side unless both parties use the app, but TechCrunch tests found no warning for call recipients.

2️⃣ Broad Data Rights and AI Sales - Neon’s terms grant the company a global, exclusive, and transferable license to sell and distribute user recordings in any format, present or future. The audio is sold to AI companies to train machine learning models, with little transparency on partners or their data practices.

3️⃣ Privacy and Legal Red Flags - While Neon says it removes personal identifiers, legal experts warn voice data can still enable fraud or impersonation. Recording only one side of a call may bypass wiretap laws, but the app’s sweeping license and lack of disclosure raise serious privacy concerns. 

Neon’s popularity highlights growing public willingness to exchange privacy for small payouts, even as AI companies seek massive amounts of personal data. The app’s rise underscores how AI’s hunger for voice data is reshaping privacy norms, and testing the limits of legal and ethical safeguards.

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🚀 AI Adoption Soars in 2025 DORA Report

Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA report shows how AI is transforming software development worldwide. Surveying nearly 5,000 tech professionals, it highlights massive adoption, productivity boosts, and the evolving trust dynamics shaping AI’s role in modern workflows.

The Shift:

1️⃣ Widespread AI Adoption & Productivity Gains - AI usage among developers has surged to 90%, up 14% from last year, with a median of two hours daily spent using AI tools. Over 80% report higher productivity, and 59% say AI has improved code quality.

2️⃣ Trust–Productivity Paradox - Despite strong reliance, only 24% of developers trust AI “a lot” or more, while 30% trust it “a little” or not at all. AI is seen as an assistant that accelerates work rather than a full replacement for human judgment.

3️⃣ Organizational Impact & Google’s New Model - AI adoption is linked to faster software delivery, and the report identifies seven team archetypes showing how AI amplifies strengths or exposes gaps. Google also introduced the DORA AI Capabilities Model, outlining seven technical and cultural practices to help organizations scale AI effectively.

AI is now a core element of software development, boosting productivity and code quality across teams. But to fully benefit, organizations must build trust and adopt structured practices like those in Google’s new model to scale AI with lasting success.

🔨AI Tools for the Shift

🎧 AudioConvert AI – Instantly convert audio into accurate text with world-class AI that’s fast, precise, and free for everyone.

📈 AdsGo AI – Fully managed, AI-driven cross-channel ads to plan, test, optimize, and scale campaigns effortlessly.

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📞 Intuo – 24/7 Voice AI Receptionist  – Learns your business, speaks in your voice, and handles calls in any language—your perfect always-on employee.

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🚀Quick Shifts

🔊 Google Rolls Out Real-Time AI Voice Search in the US. Users can now tap the “Live” button in the Google app to chat with an AI assistant that answers aloud and shares web links for instant, conversational search.

📞 Neon, now the No. 2 social app on Apple’s U.S. App Store, offers up to 30¢ per minute for recorded calls while granting itself broad rights to sell those recordings to AI companies.

🤝  Starting Wednesday, Copilot users can pick Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 or Claude Sonnet 4 alongside OpenAI models for tasks from complex research to large-scale data processing and content creation.

📊Google’s new Data Commons MCP Server lets AI agents and developers pull verified stats from global datasets using natural language, grounding models in accurate context, and improving training pipelines.

That’s all for today’s edition. See you tomorrow as we track down and get you all that matters in the daily AI Shift!

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