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Plaud has opened preorders for its $250 Plaud One Explorer Edition AI earbuds, which can capture in-person conversations, phone calls, virtual meetings, and spoken notes. Audio can be sent to Plaud Agent and Plaud Intelligence for transcription and summarization, with integrations for Google Calendar, Notion, and Slack and tools that generate emails, documents, and presentations from recorded content.
Plaud says recordings are encrypted, retained on the device and in its app, and uploaded to the cloud to support transcription and summarization; it also says customer data is not used to train models unless users opt in and that US user data is hosted on US-based servers. The earbuds' unobtrusive design raises consent and surveillance risks because people nearby may not realize they are being recorded, while cloud processing and questions about the Chinese company's data-handling assurances remain privacy concerns.
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Alongside the Plaud One launch, Plaud said it improved Plaud Intelligence's memory and context capabilities. The earbuds connect to Plaud Intelligence for transcription, summarization, and access to selected AI models.
Plaud announced the Plaud One Explorer Edition, AI-enabled earbuds that can record conversations, calls, virtual meetings, and spoken notes. The company opened preorders, priced at $250 in the United States and €249 in France.
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