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Bye bye, Cortana: Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI.
Breaking 1 billion: Apple is celebrating after its services business now has over 1 billion subscribers.
Stepping down: Nikola’s CEO Michael Lohscheller steps down and will be replaced by chairman. Meanwhile, the company finally gets enough shareholder support to issue more shares.
E=mcSalesforce: The Salesforce Einstein Studio lets you bring your own model, starting with Amazon SageMaker.
Coming soon to TikTok in Europe: A “For You” feed without the TikTok algorithm.
Still going . . . down: AWS revenue growth dropped to 12% in Q2, but the company remains optimistic about its cloud business.
Sort of off the hook: The SEC concluded its investigation into Better.com, but didn’t recommend enforcement action at this time. That’s not the end of the story.
Mastodon in the spotlight: Stomp brings a fully functional Mastodon app to your Apple Watch.
This one or that one: Spotify has a new product to help software development teams with A/B testing.
The Japanese equivalent of OpenAI: SoftBank launches SB Intuitions, which is building LLMs and generative AI in Japanese.
Like Crunchbase, but for web3: EdgeIn launches with what it hopes is a faster, community-driven database for builders in web3.
Still picking up the pieces: Another health data management company confirms that the personal data of 1.7 million Oregon residents was accessed by MOVEit hackers.
Concentrate and ask again: Six startup founders gaze into a future-of-work crystal ball. (TC+)
We have a lot to learn indeed: The U.S. could learn a lot from how the U.K. is crafting DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policy for venture capital. (TC+)
Four more for your Friday:
AI chip startup Tenstorrent lands $100M investment from Hyundai and Samsung
AI is going 4-dimensional
Amazon Music teams up with Bandsintown to let fans shop merch from popular artists
Unpacking the end of Luko’s solo journey in insurtech (TC+)
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