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Apple Considers Paid Usage Tiers for Its New Siri AI
Heavy users could buy additional computing capacity through iCloud+ after the assistant's broader rollout this fall.
WhatsApp Tests a Separate Inbox for Offers and Business Updates
Messages from large companies could move automatically after a few hours, reducing clutter in users' main chat timelines.
App Store Changes and Gaming Weakness Slow Apple's Services Business
Apple still set a quarterly services record, but regulatory pressure and softer gaming activity limited growth in key areas.
Tesla Produces Its 10 Millionth Electric Vehicle
The manufacturing milestone puts the company halfway toward one target in Elon Musk's compensation plan, even as annual sales remain below earlier ambitions.
Microsoft Records a $3.2 Billion Anthropic Gain and a Quarterly OpenAI Write-Down
The contrasting accounting results show the complexity of Microsoft's financial exposure to two competing AI laboratories.
Weave Raises $13.5 Million to Measure the Return on AI Coding Tools
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
World Foundation Raises $52.5 Million Through a Locked Token Sale
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Natural Raises $30 Million to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
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.
Adobe Agrees to Acquire Topaz Labs
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Maker Anysphere
Elon Musk's rocket company will pay $60 billion in stock for the AI coding startup, days after its record-setting IPO.
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 Brings Agentic Tasks Into Search
New Search agents can continue monitoring information and assemble interactive results instead of returning only a list of pages.
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.
Googlebook Brings Android, ChromeOS and Gemini Into a New Laptop Line
Google is working with major PC manufacturers on AI-native notebooks scheduled for the fall.
Slash Raises $100 Million and Reaches a $1.4 Billion Valuation
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
Apple Acquires Final Cut Pro Specialist MotionVFX
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
Google Pushes Gemini Deeper Into Docs, Sheets and Slides
The update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
