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SoftBank issued $11.1 billion in bonds to fund its investment in OpenAI, according to CNBC. Following the debt issuance, the Japanese technology investment firm saw its share price rise by more than 7%.
Major technology vendors are offering heavy discounts and free tiers to drive AI adoption, according to The Information. Amazon announced that merchants on its shopping platform will receive one year of free access to its Quick Plus AI assistant, while Microsoft is heavily discounting Copilot subscriptions alongside price cuts across software firms and labs like OpenAI.
Meta Platforms announced commercial partnerships with Walmart and other retailers for its AI agent Muse during its annual Connect conference. The retail alliances follow Amazon's recent move to block the personalized agent from accessing its e-commerce platform.
Court documents reveal that OpenAI claimed Apple's ChatGPT integrations "dramatically underperformed," detailing how ties between the two companies unraveled as Apple subsequently turned to a Google-powered "Siri AI," according to the Financial Times.
The Financial Times reports that Meta will unveil new AI products as its personal AI agent app, Muse, becomes the most downloaded application in the United States. The tool performs consumer tasks including shopping and scheduling.
Meta's AI agent Muse gained over 500,000 users in its first week and reached the top ranking in Apple's App Store. Meta has acknowledged the application was heavily inspired by the open-source project OpenClaw amid findings of nearly identical file names and contents, while OpenAI is reportedly considering a competitive response.
The Verge reports that YouTube is developing AI-driven creator tools designed to automate key aspects of the content creation workflow and provide direct recommendations, announced during its annual Made on YouTube event.
Alibaba's Qwen AI team has launched Qwen-Audio-3.1, a suite of five models designed for automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time interaction. The updated lineup introduces improved multilingual and dialect recognition, automated filler word removal, timestamped multi-speaker identification, and acoustic emotion and noise detection, alongside price cuts of up to 95 percent.
CIO Dive reports that AI agent adoption is rapidly expanding across the retail industry. While organisations are working to curb unapproved shadow AI, IT and security teams face ongoing challenges governing agentic sprawl and protecting regulated data from exposure.
Shares of Chinese AI developers fell after reports that China's internet regulator is investigating potential data leaks to Anthropic. In Hong Kong trading, Z.ai (Zhipu) dropped 12.4%, MiniMax declined 4%, and Alibaba fell 4.4%.
