Granola, the AI-powered note-taking app that runs in the background of your calls, is reportedly raising a huge new round. The deal would value the London startup at over $1 billion, a massive jump from just eight months ago.
Apple’s quarterly revenue jumped 16% to $143.8 billion, driven by “staggering” iPhone demand. Alongside the earnings, the company quietly made its second-largest acquisition ever, buying Israeli AI audio startup Q.AI for nearly $2 billion.
India’s new labor codes are live, replacing 29 old laws. The compliance chaos is pushing wage bills up and revealing just how unprepared many HR tech systems are. It’s a massive operational headache with a real price tag.
Senior engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI say they no longer write code manually, relying entirely on AI like Claude Code. This shift is already changing hiring and could automate most software work within a year.
Amazon confirmed another 16,000 corporate layoffs this week, bringing its total cuts to 30,000 in just four months. CEO Andy Jassy insists AI isn’t the driver, but he previously said AI would lead to a smaller corporate workforce. The company is still investing billions in AI and cloud infrastructur
According to VentureBeat, the open-source AI agent Clawdbot, which hit 60,000 GitHub stars, has fundamental security flaws that were weaponized within days. Infostealers like RedLine and Lumma added it to their target lists before most security teams even knew it was running, with one VC firm report
Google is rolling out a significant expansion of its Android theft protection features. The updates include better safeguards against financial fraud, more granular controls for failed authentication locks, and new remote security tools.
Nvidia has officially launched a native beta version of its GeForce Now cloud gaming service for Linux. While Ubuntu is the only officially supported distro for now, it also works on Flatpak-based systems like Bazzite. The move helps fill game compatibility gaps for Linux gamers.
Microsoft’s stock plunged 12% after earnings, its biggest drop in nearly six years. The crash came even though the company beat revenue and profit forecasts, with cloud revenue hitting $50 billion. Investors are worried about massive AI spending and a slight deceleration in Azure growth.
Two tech firms are proposing a new technical standard to solve AI’s copyright dilemma. They want to embed licensing and payments directly into the AI training process itself.
