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Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a new AI model that delivers near-flagship performance at half the cost of Claude Fable 5, becoming the default model on Claude Max.
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Apple is reportedly launching Apple Upgrade, a lease-to-own program backed by Klarna that lets US customers spread iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch costs over multiple years.
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Wellumio, a New Zealand medtech company, has closed an oversubscribed 9.75 million dollar pre-Series A round to advance its portable stroke detection device, Axana.
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Anthropic has upgraded Claude's voice mode to support Opus and Sonnet models alongside Haiku, adding connector access to Gmail, Slack, Calendar and more.
Having reached 700,000 students worldwide, the funding shifts classroom learning from passive technology consumption into high-fidelity building pipelines.
New York-based imagi has raised $4.5 million in Seed funding from Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist-investor will.i .am. Founded by Dora Palfi and Beatrice Ionascu the edtech platform will use
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The capital injection will scale its curriculum, which partners with the vibe-coding tool Lovable to let students build software entirely via natural language prompts. Supported by $1 million in OpenAI credits, the platform remains fully COPPA, FERPA, and GDPR compliant.
The fresh capital will fund tech innovation and international engineering headcount expansion. This financing positions PageMind as the dominant product discovery provider allowing online retailers to maximize search visibility without massive marketing overhead.
The capital injection will accelerate product development for its semantic content engine, which automatically optimizes descriptions, guides, and chatbot assistants. The platform improves how items are discovered across conversational search platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini.
and bookings. Driven by its AI coworker Charlie, the platform integrates with internal enterprise systems to resolve inquiries autonomously. Already operating at scale for major enterprise clients like Sky, Enpal, and Vaillant, the funding will scale telli's infrastructure.