Oracle booked $65B in AI cloud deals—including Meta—in 30 days, but the stock slipped after-hours despite raised 2030 targets. Investors want proof on 30–40% margins, not bookings. Demand's real. Execution's unproven. The scoreboard moves there.
Anthropic wired Claude into Microsoft 365, chasing institutional memory while Microsoft hedges with model choice inside Copilot. The fight isn't about chat features—it's about who mediates your company's knowledge day after day.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Apple promoted its Siri overhaul chief. Three weeks later, he joined Meta. That makes twelve
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Meet Perplexity AI, the search engine that's basically Google with a PhD. It's becoming the go-to tool for anyone who likes their answers served with a side of actual facts.
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The feature set is impressive enough to make other AI tools feel like pocket calculators. Different search modes like Auto, Deep Research, and Pro Search deliver tailored results. It devours academic papers, web content, and social media posts like a grad student during finals week. It even analyzes PDFs and images without breaking a sweat.
The "Discover" tab works like a news butler 📰, serving up personalized content on tech, finance, science, culture, and sports – based on your previous searches. "Spaces" lets you organize your AI chats by topic, similar to ChatGPT's Custom GPTs (but with less existential dread).
"Pages" lets you create AI-generated Wikipedia pages 📄 that you can edit and share. The mobile app shows off with camera-based search and voice recognition 📱, perfect for when typing feels too 2023.
As a cherry on top, Perplexity integrates image generation through Flux One, DALL·E 3, and Playground V3 🎨. It even connects with Crunchbase AI to predict startup funding trends with 95% accuracy 📈 (though it's still working on predicting cryptocurrency crashes).
Strengths: ✅
Weaknesses: ⚠️
Pricing: 💰
Fathom adds enterprise features competitors launched months ago while testing whether unlimited free access and HubSpot distribution can compensate for transcription accuracy that independent reviews place 30% below market leaders.
Gmail made AI drafting free in early 2025, resetting the market. Startups now push deeper automation or compete on price against zero. The shake-out shows which AI features justify premium pricing—and which were always commodity infrastructure.
Google transforms search from typing queries to live conversations with AI. The feature exits experimental status and becomes standard across US mobile apps, forcing competitors to match conversational capabilities or risk appearing outdated.
Voice typing finally rivals keyboards—if you choose the right balance of privacy, speed, and cost. New AI-powered apps transform rough speech into polished text, but the local vs. cloud decision shapes everything else.
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