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Apple Launches Klarna-Backed Leasing for iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watch
Apple Upgrade replaces two existing U.S. payment programs and lets eligible customers return, buy or exchange a device at the end of the lease.
The Series A Bar Has Moved Again
Investors now want $2.5 million in recurring revenue and evidence of durable retention.
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Consumer AI Apps Still Have a Retention Problem
Day-30 retention across the category sits below eight percent, according to three separate datasets.
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
Cast Insights Raises $4.5 Million to Index Live Spoken Media
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
Fireworks AI Raises $1.505 Billion at a $17.5 Billion Valuation
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
Whatnot Acquires Shaped for Real-Time Shopping Recommendations
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
OpenAI Introduces GPT-Live for More Natural Voice Conversations
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Super.com Raises $65 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
Pocket Raises $11 Million for Its Dedicated AI Note-Taking Device
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
Assort Health Raises $120 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
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Kotoba Technologies Adds $10 Million to Expand East Asian Voice AI
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
Genspark Extends Series B to $485 Million at a $2.6 Billion Valuation
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
Bland Raises $50 Million to Expand Its Enterprise Voice AI
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
Databricks CustomerLake Brings Customer Data Tools to the Lakehouse
The native platform combines identity resolution, audience building, activation and AI agents.
Apple Extends Intelligence Across Maps, Find My and Apple Cash
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
Sekai Raises $26 Million as Users Generate Millions of Mini Apps
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
Status AI Raises $17 Million for an Interactive Social Network
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Google Reshapes Its AI Plans With a $100 Ultra Tier
The subscription update separates mainstream, professional and higher-compute access as Google expands Gemini across its products.
Fazeshift Raises $17 Million for Autonomous Accounts Receivable
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
Hightouch Raises $150 Million for an Agentic Marketing Platform
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
Adobe CX Enterprise Brings Agentic AI to Customer Operations
The new system connects marketing data, content, analytics and automated work across the customer lifecycle.
Expo Raises $45 Million and Launches an Agent for Production Mobile Apps
The React Native platform is expanding from developer infrastructure into AI-assisted work that helps enterprise teams move from an idea to a shipped application.
Hilbert Raises $28 Million to Turn Growth Data Into Automated Decisions
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
Phonely Raises $16 Million as Customers Back Its Business Voice AI
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
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Instacart Acquires Instaleap to Expand Its Enterprise Platform
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
Meta Introduces Muse Spark in an AI Product Overhaul
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
Databricks Enters Security Market With Lakewatch Agentic SIEM
The platform combines security data and automated investigation on the company's lakehouse.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Denki Raises $4.1 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Audits
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
14.ai Raises $3 Million for an AI-Native Customer Service Agency
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
Salesforce Launches Five AI Agents for Communications Providers
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
Simile Raises $100 Million to Build AI Simulations of Human Behavior
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
Apple Buys Full Rights to Severance
The reported deal moves future production of the hit series inside Apple Studios.
Ouster Acquires StereoLabs for Cash and Stock
The sensor company is combining digital lidar with stereo cameras and perception software for physical AI.
Sapiom Raises $15.75 Million for Machine-Native Financial Infrastructure
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
