Claude's paying consumer base grew 75% since January, credit card data from Indagari shows, while DataCamp says Claude is now its most searched term.

Xbox consoles will increase by $100 to $150 on August 1, pushing the Series X to $800. Microsoft blames memory costs that have more than doubled.

Google Finance leaves beta with a new Android app, portfolio dashboards, an AI research tool, and scheduled market briefings powered by Gemini.

Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is suing Meta over its efforts to silence her, after a gag order that fined her $50,000 per public criticism of the company.

Sail Research has raised $80m, led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, to run long-horizon AI agents at up to 10x lower cost per token.

Coval has raised $28m, led by Norwest, to simulate and test enterprise AI voice agents before they fail on real customer calls.

Alan has raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation, months after its last round, as the French insurtech bets on AI-led prevention.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are funding RAISE US, a $1bn nonprofit led by Gina Raimondo to retrain US workers for the AI economy.

Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn, and is pivoting to autonomous finance and AI agents that transact for you.

Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning AI image and video enhancement company, to add upscaling, restoration and on-device AI to Firefly.

Brussels held talks with Washington over Anthropic after a US export-control order cut Europe off from Fable 5 and Mythos 5, including ENISA.

LuminaData founder Afrozy Ara argues that the $675 billion AI infrastructure boom will not pay off until enterprises stop automating broken workflows and start redesigning the processes underneath, ...