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A broad industry letter argues that downloadable model weights are central to U.S. competition, customer control and cyber defense—even as policymakers focus on misuse and China.
OpenAI is expanding Health in ChatGPT across the United States, allowing eligible users to connect supported medical records and Apple Health data.
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.
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, with code execution and closer ties to the Gemini app and Search as Google consolidates research, analysis and creation into a shared workspace.
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.
Palantir is turning “AI sovereignty” into an enterprise architecture argument: companies should control the data, operational context and model choices that shape their proprietary intelligence.
An analysis of S&P 500 filings found that 11% of companies had deeply integrated AI by 2025, while another 10% used it directly in production—far below the level implied by corporate enthusiasm.
Getty terminated its $3.7 billion agreement with Shutterstock after U.K. regulators required the sale of Shutterstock’s global editorial business.
Norm’s $120 million financing at a $1.2 billion valuation is tied to a more consequential experiment than automated research: a law firm built around supervised agents and outcome-based pricing.
