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Search and Other advertising revenue grew 17% while AI Mode and AI Overviews expanded, showing that Google can still grow its core business during a radical product transition—at least for now.
Natural raised $30 million to build wallets, payments and controls for autonomous software, exposing the financial infrastructure that agentic commerce still lacks.
Rime raised a $24 million Series A to build enterprise voice models, making a case that proprietary conversational data and linguistic craft will separate credible systems from uncanny demos.
Getty terminated its $3.7 billion agreement with Shutterstock after U.K. regulators required the sale of Shutterstock’s global editorial business.
