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ChatGPT Health Rolls Out to U.S. Adults With Connected Records
OpenAI is expanding Health in ChatGPT across the United States, allowing eligible users to connect supported medical records and Apple Health data.
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NextCommerce
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Google’s AI Search Transition Has Not Yet Broken Its Advertising Engine
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.
NextCommerce
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AI Agents Can Find the Product. Now They Need Permission to Pay
Natural raised $30 million to build wallets, payments and controls for autonomous software, exposing the financial infrastructure that agentic commerce still lacks.
NextWork
News Brief
Google Is Turning Its Research Notebook Into a Broader Work Platform
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.
NextCommerce
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Voice AI Is Becoming a Data-Quality Competition
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.
NextWork
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Companies Are Beginning to Ask Who Controls Their AI Intelligence
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.
NextWork
Analysis
Most Large Companies Still Have Not Deeply Integrated AI
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.
NextCommerce
Analysis
Getty and Shutterstock Walk Away From Their Merger
Getty terminated its $3.7 billion agreement with Shutterstock after U.K. regulators required the sale of Shutterstock’s global editorial business.
NextWork
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Legal AI Is Beginning to Change the Law-Firm Business Model
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.
NextDesign
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Meta’s Muse Image Turns Image Generation Into an Agentic Workflow
Meta’s newest image model can search, write code, combine references and revise its own output before returning a finished visual.