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Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 — Also: A Genmoji upgrade is coming in iOS 27. — Apple's Siri app in iOS 27 will include privacy features unique to the chatbot market.| The Hacker News: |
Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay — Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company's GitHub environment and download its codebase.
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| John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: |
Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The demographic landslide defining our era is gaining speed — and terrain. In more than two-thirds of the world's 195 countries …
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| Lauren Sherman / Puck: |
Source: Shein is acquiring DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which focuses on sustainability and “radical transparency”, in a $100M deal — The Millennial D.T.C. company built a global brand based on sustainability and radical transparency. Now, after a years-long slump …
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Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue — Anthropic and OpenAI are widening the revenue gap between themselves and the rest of the AI startup field.
More: Taipei Times
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chinese artificial intelligence groups have moved ahead of US rivals in video generation, a key battleground in generative AI … | Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: |
Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions — Fast16 didn't predate Stuxnet but was contemporaneous with it. It also wasn't aimed at altering nuclear weapons … | Jack Kubinec / Fortune: |
Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating — AI is swiftly rewiring the way people work, but an outsize amount of this workplace revolution has so far been confined to Fortune 500-style companies.| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85M after raising a $25M Series A in February 2026 — - Monaco, which came out of stealth earlier this year, is developing AI software to automate sales.
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — GovWell, a platform for permitting and licensing, raised a $25 million Series A led by Insight Partners, co-founders Ben Cohen and Troy LeCaire tell Axios Pro exclusively.| Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of today's biggest AI companies, SAS—once America's largest privately held software company—has always operated slowly, steadily and profitably.
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| Alison Weissbrot / Adweek: |
Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash — Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire LiveRamp for $2.2 billion all-cash deal, the French holding company said Sunday.| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Sources: DayOne, the spinoff of China's largest data center operator GDS Holdings, plans dual IPO in Singapore and NY, seeking to raise $5B at a ~$20B valuation — Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others …
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Filings: in Q1, Trump traded $220M-$750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and other stocks; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news — President Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars …
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