Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
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An eSIM-enabled case that talks directly to AI agents turns Plaud’s $249 earbuds into a roaming, phone-optional assistant. For software builders, this is a prompt to expose lightweight, voice-first agent endpoints that can run on constrained, intermittently connected hardware.
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