Predictive feet, cloned voices & more (June 6, 2025)

Hey friends,

AI’s getting personal, from your voice to your feet. ElevenLabs and Bland just pushed voice tech to uncanny levels, Google keeps climbing the model charts, and a wild new foot scanner can predict heart failure two weeks early. Meanwhile, Voxel51 just crushed data labeling costs with zero-shot magic.

Let’s dive in.

🦶 Your Feet Can Save Your Heart

AI Foot Scanner Predicts Heart Failure

Cambridge-based Heartfelt Technologies built a wall-mounted foot scanner that snaps 1,800 images per minute to detect fluid buildup. In trials, it predicted hospitalizations 13 days in advance with 83% patient retention post-study. No needles, no interactions, just preventive AI for your ankles.

🔊 The Voices Are Getting Too Real

ElevenLabs’ V3 Is the Most Expressive Yet

The new ElevenLabs model supports 70+ languages and emotional tags like [laughing] or [whispers]. It’s not just audio, it’s theater in text.

Bland TTS: Scarily Accurate Voice Cloning

Bland's new model clones your voice after just seconds of audio. Great for storytelling, chilling for deepfakes. Watch your tone, it might be used against you.

🚀 Models, Tools & Money Moves

Cursor’s $9.9B Valuation and Big Upgrade

Anysphere raised $900M as Cursor hit $500M ARR. Cursor 1.0 now features background agents, long-term memory, and one-click third-party integrations.

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Powers Up (Again)

The latest Gemini update boosts coding, reasoning, and formatting. “Thinking budgets” give devs cost control, and it’s already live in the API and Gemini app.

Voxel51 Makes Labeling 100,000x Cheaper

Auto-labeling 1.2M objects now costs just $0.42 using models like YOLO-World and Grounding DINO, with 95% of human performance in under 30 minutes.

🛠️ Tools of the Day

• Jots – AI journaling for reflection and goal tracking
• Kamili – Analyze UX and site nav without dev skills
• v0.dev – Turn text prompts into shippable UIs
• Claude Composer CLI – Control Claude Code from your terminal

🧠 Prompt of the Day

Starbursting Strategy
Prompt:
Act as a creative strategist and help me run a Starbursting session for this idea: [Insert your idea]. Generate “Who, What, When, Where, Why, How” questions, and dig into the most strategic 5.

⚡ Quick Hits

• Claude Gov now live for U.S. defense agencies
• Modify Video retextures visuals without messing up motion
• SEC data has integrated with Perplexity Labs
• TikTok goes crazy with AI videos, check out AI-generated “Yeti ASMR”

📌 TLDR

AI is taking over your senses, from ultra-realistic voice cloning to foot-level health monitoring. Gemini 2.5 Pro flexes again, Cursor gets funded like a unicorn, and zero-shot labeling just made manual tagging obsolete. This is AI touching everything, literally.

Catch you later,
David