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Month: June 2025 (Page 1 of 2)

Grammarly to acquire Superhuman

Grammarly, an AI assistant for communication and productivity, announced its intent to acquire Superhuman, an AI-native email app that helps users respond faster and save hours every week on their email communications. This acquisition accelerates Grammarly’s evolution into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents, positioning email as a critical communication surface in the company’s vision of an agentic future.

Email is the number-one use case of Grammarly for professionals, with the AI assistant helping to revise over 50 million emails per week across more than 20 email providers, including Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and Superhuman.

Superhuman brings more than productivity gains to the acquisition. Building on its impressive adoption, Superhuman is defining the future of email and evolving into a comprehensive workspace for agents. Now imagine taking that efficiency even further with AI agents that triage your inbox, schedule your meetings, perform deep research over all your content, and write full emails in your own voice and tone. Imagine those agents reasoning, problem-solving, incorporating detailed context about your work, and interacting with other systems and agents. This future platform will enable scenarios where users can work with multiple agents simultaneously.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-to-acquire-superhumanhttps://superhuman.com

RWS acquires Papercup’s IP

RWS, a content solutions company powered by technology and human expertise, has acquired the intellectual property behind Papercup’s AI dubbing technology – known for its unique ability to reproduce a speaker’s tone, pace and emotion faithfully.

The acquisition is a strategic step in RWS’s wider plan to embed advanced AI across its technology stack, accelerating its ability to support enterprise clients with multilingual video, voice and content localization across multiple formats and channels.

Papercup’s technology combines voice synthesis, thousands of unique AI voices and editorial tools for human language specialists to fine-tune the output – offering control and quality output comparable to human dubbing by actors and artists, at a fraction of the cost and turnaround time.

While AI-only dubbing tools often fall short on critical elements like timing, voice consistency and speaker identification, RWS’s hybrid approach puts humans in the loop to optimize tone, pacing and accuracy – enabling video dubbing that’s both scalable and brand-consistent.

Enterprise clients can expect to unlock value from video content that was once too expensive or complex to localize. Papercup’s technology will now sit alongside RWS’s existing suite of language technologies – including Language Weaver for neural machine translation and the Trados platform.

https://www.rws.com/about/news/2025/rws-acquires-papercups-iphttps://www.papercup.com

Gilbane Advisor 6-25-25 — Designer CMSs, C2PA progress

This week we feature articles from Kate Holterhoff, and Tim Bray.

Additional reading comes from Andrej Karpathy, Ethan Mollick, and Arun Arora, Ido Segev, & Sub Datta.

News comes from CLX Europe & ALLSIDES Media, Algolia, Adobe, and Deepgram.

Our next issue arrives July 9.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index


Opinion / Analysis

Introducing the designer-first CMS

Kate Holterhoff explains the emergence of designer-first CMSs, discusses how other categories of CMSs have evolved, and provides a very useful description of today’s landscape. An excellent read for anyone in the market for a CMS. (11 min)

https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2025/06/03/introducing-the-designer-first-cms/

June 2025 C2PA news

Tim Bray has a positive update on the progress of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)…

“Things are happening in the C2PA world; here are a couple of useful steps forward, plus cheers and boos for Adobe. Plus a live working C2PA demo you can try out.” (6 min)

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/17/More-C2PA

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Content technology news

CLX Europe launches creative content studio in Paris focused on 3D scanning technology

Generative AI, high-resolution 3D scanning, and creative expertise to create digital content production for luxury fashion brands and eCommerce players.
https://www.clxeurope.com ■ https://www.allsides.tech

Algolia introduces context-aware retrieval for agents

Algolia introduces context-aware retrieval for agents — The MCP server enables LLMs and autonomous agents to retrieve, reason with, and act on real-time business context from Algolia.
https://www.algolia.com/about/news/algolia-introduces-context-aware-retrieval-for-the-agentic-era 

Adobe announces LLM Optimizer

LLM Optimizer enables businesses to monitor AI-driven traffic and benchmark brand visibility, with recommendations that can be quickly deployed across digital properties.
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/06/adobe-llm-optimizer-empowers-businesses-drive-brand-visibility

Deepgram launches Voice Agent API

The Voice Agent API provides a single, unified API that integrates speech-to-text, LLM reasoning, and text-to-speech with built-in support for real-time conversational dynamics.
https://deepgram.com/learn/voice-agent-api-generally-available

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CLX Europe launches creative content studio in Paris focused on 3D scanning technology

CLX Europe, an eClerx company, introduced its new content creation studio in Paris, France today, during its participation in Viva Technology 2025, Europe’s premier technology event.

Through CLX Europe’s partnership with ALLSIDES Media (previously Covision Media), this cutting-edge studio leverages generative AI, high-resolution 3D scanning, and creative expertise to seamlessly create digital content production for luxury fashion brands and eCommerce players.

Operational since February 2025, the studio deploys ALLSIDES technology to create immersive, photorealistic content that enhances digital storytelling and engagement. With this digital-first approach to creative content production, the Paris studio will be able to offer:

  • Automated 3D asset production: Re-lightable, reality-grade models with minimal manual intervention
  • Scalability and speed: High-volume, customized content creation for fast-paced digital demands
  • Omnichannel integration: Assets optimized for eCommerce, social media, AR/VR, and virtual try-ons

This approach will also further CLX Europe’s mission for more sustainable practices, dramatically reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions for clients without sacrificing quality.

The addition of the Paris studio will not only allow CLX Europe to offer realistic-grade content production for luxury brands, but also open the door for the creation of groundbreaking 3D assets.

https://www.clxeurope.comhttps://www.allsides.tech

Algolia introduces context-aware retrieval for agents

Algolia, an AI-native search and discovery platform, released its MCP Server, the first component in a broader strategy to support AI agents. This new offering enables large language models (LLMs) and autonomous agents to retrieve, reason with, and act on real-time business context from Algolia.

With the Algolia MCP Server, agents can access Algolia’s search, analytics, recommendations, and index configuration APIs through a standards-based, secure runtime. This turns Algolia into a real-time context surface for agents embedded in commerce, service, and productivity experiences. Additionally, Algolia’s explainability framework with its AI is included for enhanced transparency.

Algolia’s MCP Server is purpose-built for enterprise-grade agent orchestration, enforcing policy at the protocol layer to ensure agents operate within role- and context-sensitive boundaries. It provides end-to-end observability, making every agent-triggered decision fully traceable and inspectable. The platform also enables privacy-aware personalization that complies with regional regulations like GDPR and CCPA, without relying on invasive tracking.

Enterprise customers, developers, and partners can start building AI-native applications, copilots, and intelligent agents today. Algolia’s MCP Server supports Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and can be integrated with leading LLM runtimes.

https://www.algolia.com/about/news/algolia-introduces-context-aware-retrieval-for-the-agentic-era

Deepgram launches Voice Agent API

Deepgram, a voice AI platform for enterprise use cases, announced the general availability of its Voice Agent API, a single, unified voice-to-voice interface that gives developers full control to build context-aware voice agents that power natural, responsive conversations. Combining speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and large language model (LLM) orchestration with contextualized conversational logic into a unified architecture, the Voice Agent API gives developers the choice of using Deepgram’s fully integrated stack (leveraging Nova-3 STT and Aura-2 TTS models) or bringing their own LLM and TTS models. It delivers simplicity for developers and the controllability enterprises need to deploy voice agents.

Deepgram’s Voice Agent API provides a single, unified API that integrates speech-to-text, LLM reasoning, and text-to-speech with built-in support for real-time conversational dynamics. Capabilities such as barge-in handling and turn-taking prediction are model-driven and managed natively within the platform.

While the Voice Agent API streamlines development, it also gives teams control over performance, behavior, and scalability in production. Built on Deepgram’s Enterprise Runtime and model ownership across the voice AI stack, the platform enables model-level optimization at every layer of the interaction loop for precise tuning of latency, barge-in handling, turn-taking, and domain-specific behavior in ways not possible with disconnected components.

https://deepgram.com/learn/voice-agent-api-generally-available

Adobe announces LLM Optimizer

Adobe announced Adobe LLM Optimizer, an enterprise application that enables businesses to gain new relevance where consumers are embracing generative AI-powered interfaces to engage brands. With Adobe LLM Optimizer, teams can stay ahead of shifting consumer behaviors and remain top-of-mind in the AI era. A suite of features will enable businesses to monitor AI-driven traffic and benchmark brand visibility, while receiving recommendations that can be quickly deployed on their digital properties to improve discoverability, engagement and conversion.

LLM Optimizer will be able to identify owned content (details on a website for instance) that is being leveraged by AI-powered interfaces to deliver responses to user queries. This provides teams with a real-time pulse on how their brand is showing up across browsers and chat services.

A recommendation engine detects gaps in brand visibility and suggests improvements across both owned (web pages, FAQs) and external (Wikipedia, public forums) channels — based on attributes prioritized by LLMs including high-quality, informative content from authoritative sources.

LLM Optimizer is built to support existing workflows across SEO leads, content strategists, digital marketers and web publishers, and supports enterprise-ready frameworks such as Agent-to-Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP), to integrate LLM Optimizer with third-party solutions and partners.

https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/06/adobe-llm-optimizer-empowers-businesses-drive-brand-visibility

Gilbane Advisor 6-11-25 — Future knowledge graphs, knocking LLMs

This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Gary Marcus.

Additional reading comes from Benjamin A. Spiegel, Astasia Myers, Denise Holt, and Lindsay Clark.

News comes from TransPerfect, Sigma, ContentStack, and Wondershare.

Our next issue arrives June 25.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index


Opinion / Analysis

The future of knowledge graphs

If you read last week’s featured and popular article on the evolving landscape of graph models, you’ll also want to check out this just-published piece by Kurt Cagle on knowledge graph technologies, LLMs, and where they’re headed. (19 min)

https://ontologist.substack.com/p/the-future-of-knowledge-graphs

A knockout blow for LLMs?

In October Apple released a mostly well-received paper arguing that LLMs don’t do formal reasoning, and just released a follow-up paper. Marcus reviews the new paper. He also quotes a thread from VC Josh Wolfe which summarizes the main points that will take you all of a minute to read, but you’ll want to read the full Marcus review. (7 min)

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms

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Content technology news

TransPerfect launches app for mobile interpretation

The TransPerfect Interpretation App, enables users to connect to a live, expertly trained video or phone interpreter in seconds.
https://www.transperfect.com/about/press/transperfect-launches-new-app-mobile-interpretation

Sigma launches semantic layer integration and AI SQL capabilities on Snowflake

New integrations and capabilities make semantic layers and unstructured file querying fully accessible in Sigma’s spreadsheet UI.
https://www.sigmacomputing.com/resources/announcements/sigma-launches-native-semantic-layer-integration-and-ai-sql-capabilities-on-snowflake-ai-data-cloud

Contentstack unveils Contentstack Data and Insights

Contentstack Data and Insights capabilities for audience analytics and real-time data activation now integrated into Contentstack’s EDGE DXP.
https://www.contentstack.com

Wondershare EdrawMax V14.5 debuts

The EdrawMax AI Diagram Creator enables users to instantly convert their ideas into various diagrams, including architectural diagrams, slides, infographics, posters, and more.
https://www.edrawsoft.com/ad/edrawmax-edrawsoftware

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