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Google announced a new supervised Google Wallet balance for kids and teens under 18 in the US, enabling tap-to-pay on Android and Wear OS devices. Parents can set daily spending limits and view transaction history, according to Android Authority, which also reports Family Link alerts and remote locking. The announcement is covered by Google Blog and Android Authority, but details on funding, fees, and rollout remain unclear.

Anthropic has expanded Claude's voice mode beyond its lighter Haiku model to include the more capable Opus and Sonnet, and connected it to outside apps including Canva, according to reports from The Verge and Android Authority. The two outlets agree on the core change but name different sets of supported apps, and neither reports pricing, eligible plans, or when the beta reaches general availability.

Two outlets report that ChatGPT now declines to write text in the exact style of named authors, offering original prose in its own voice instead. Ars Technica documented refusals across living and deceased authors; Android Authority, which alone makes this connection, ties the change to OpenAI's copyright lawsuits — though that causal link is unconfirmed by any other outlet and by OpenAI itself. Android Authority, again the only outlet to say so, characterizes the change as one OpenAI made 'quietly,' a detail no other source in the cluster corroborates. Neither outlet establishes when OpenAI made the change or why, and by the accounts of both outlets — the only sources here — OpenAI has issued no confirmation or rationale, a point that remains unconfirmed elsewhere.

TechCrunch and Android Authority both report that OpenAI has brought an upgraded voice mode to its ChatGPT desktop app, letting users complete tasks by speaking. Beyond that agreement the two accounts diverge: Android Authority ties the feature to a model it calls GPT-Live and lists the paid tiers it covers, while TechCrunch describes integration with ChatGPT Work and Codex and does not name a GPT-Live model. Neither outlet settles pricing for free users, rollout timing, or the security implications of voice-controlled desktop tasks.