Apple Agrees to $250M Settlement Over Delayed Siri
A California federal court has granted preliminary approval to a $250M class-action settlement against Apple for advertising AI features that still don't exist.
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DeepSeek Nears $45B as China's Big Fund Leads Round
China's state semiconductor fund is leading DeepSeek's first-ever VC raise at a $45B valuation, signaling a strategic shift from chip investment to backing AI model labs directly.
SAP Acquires Prior Labs in $1.16B European AI Push
SAP buys German tabular AI startup Prior Labs and commits €1B to build Europe's first frontier AI lab, while also acquiring data lakehouse Dremio in a two-front push on structured enterprise data.
Apple Opens iOS 27 to Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT
Apple's iOS 27 'Extensions' feature lets users swap Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT into Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground - the first time rival AI models can power Apple Intelligence natively.
Inside Anthropic's $200B Google Cloud Compute Bet
Anthropic has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years - the largest cloud contract in AI history - alongside a 3.5 GW TPU capacity deal with Google and Broadcom coming online in 2027.
Anthropic Deploys 10 Finance Agents for Wall Street
Anthropic releases 10 ready-to-run AI agent templates for finance, now live at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, AIG, and nine more major institutions.
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI Over Fake Doctor Bots
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after an AI chatbot posed as a licensed psychiatrist, fabricating a state medical license number - the first governor-level enforcement action of its kind in the US.
SubQ Launches: 12M-Token Context on Sub-Quadratic AI
Subquadratic exits stealth with SubQ, the first frontier model built on a sparse-attention architecture, a $29M seed round, and a 12M-token context window that costs a fraction of Opus.
Sierra's $950M Round and the End of the Call Center
Sierra raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation to put AI agents in charge of customer service for some of the world's largest insurers and banks - and the safety questions are just beginning.
Mayo Clinic AI Spots Pancreatic Cancer 3 Years Early
REDMOD, Mayo Clinic's radiomics AI, detects 73% of pancreatic cancers in CT scans that look normal to radiologists - nearly double the rate specialists achieve.
Chrome Installs 4 GB Gemini Nano Without Asking
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB Gemini Nano model file on user devices with no consent prompt and re-downloads it if you delete it.
OpenAI, Anthropic Race to Build Their Own Palantir
On the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic each announced PE-backed enterprise ventures valued at a combined $11.5B, both built on the forward-deployed engineer model Palantir made famous.
