Apple's Hearing Aid Innovation and Podcast Merchandise

Google’s strategy of keeping it in the courts is already going to plan. New AI agents from Microsoft. New Open Source models from IBM. Perplexity is looking to raise again. How far behind Apple thinks it is in AI. And what it’s like to use your AirPods as hearing aids.

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Links:

• Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now (The Verge)
• Microsoft unveils new autonomous AI agents in advance of competing Salesforce rollout (GeekWire)
• AI Startup Perplexity in Funding Talks to More Than Double Valuation to $8 Billion (WSJ)
• IBM debuts open source Granite 3.0 LLMs for enterprise AI (VentureBeat)
• Apple’s New iPad Mini Highlights the Company’s Secret AI Advantage (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound (The Verge)

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