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In a panel session at The Podcast Show, Inception Point AI\u2019s CEO Jeanine Wright said that the company will no longer produce AI content with voices claiming to be doctors<\/a> – something Podnews highlighted last month. \u201cWe are not any more calling [AI-generated hosts] doctors or any kind of licensed or health professional or licensed expert. They will still describe themselves as an expert or having been well read and well studied in a space. We take fiction liberties with the way that our personalities describe who they are, but always after disclosing.\u201d However, asked by Dan Kendall of healthpodcast
\n<\/p><\/div>\n By the numbers – Inception Point AI is making 10,000 episodes a week, Wright said, and has well over a million listeners every month. The company has more than 400,000 subscribers across YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. As of Tuesday, there will be 12 \u201creal life\u201d people on her team, as well as eight \u201cfull-time agentic employees\u201d. One human creator can now produce \u201c80-100 new shows a day\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/p><\/div>\n In London, the winners of The Arias 2026<\/a> were announced. The awards, organised by the Audio Academy, are for the UK\u2019s audio industry including radio and podcasting; How To Fail with Elizabeth Day from Sony Music Podcasts won the best commercial partnership. For the last decade, Global, the biggest commercial broadcaster in the UK, has not supported the Audio Academy and doesn\u2019t allow its teams to enter, denying their people any industry recognition.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p><\/div>\n YouTube announced a curated podcasts homepage for the UK<\/a>. There also appears to also be one for Australia; shows are editorially curated into individual rails. This was first trailed in 2022<\/a> in leaked documents published by Podnews and became available in the US in October 2022. SInce October 2023, an automated \/podcasts homepage has been available in many countries; but this appears to be a curated version.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/p><\/div>\n Edison Research at SSRS announced that The Podcast Consumer 2026 will be presented in a webinar on Wednesday, June 3<\/a> at 2pm ET.<\/p>\n
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