Sources: H1 2025 iPhone shipments to decline ~6%, annual shipments to remain flat at around 220M to 225M units; ultra-thin iPhone's thinnest part will be ~5.5mm (Ming-Chi Kuo)
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and other companies are collectively paying hundreds of content creators for access to their unpublished videos to train AI models (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)
Sources: HPE won a $1B deal in late 2024 to provide servers optimized for AI work for X; Dell and Super Micro also bid on the deal (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz names veteran executive Fazal Merchant as president and CFO to prepare for a US IPO; sources: Wiz has ~$500M in annual revenue (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
Sources: Movement Labs, which is building a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain, is set to raise a $100M Series B at a ~$3B valuation, after raising $38M in April 2024 (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
Sources: Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2B in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $60B valuation; Anthropic was valued at $18B in 2024 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
Grammarly just made it easier to prove the sources of your text in Google Docs
ServiceNow open sources Fast-LLM in a bid to help enterprises train AI models 20% quicker