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Happy Friday.
Fintech situation room right now:
Anthropic: Hey, let Claude in. It’ll keep an eye on your spending, bills, balances… 🤗
Mercury: Agents in your account? Here’s the off switch 🔌
Same day 😅
Enjoy today's news.
Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, a beta feature that lets paid U.S. users connect bank accounts through Plaid to analyze spending, track bills, and check balances.
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Airbnb will launch an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027 to plan trips with maps, photos, and itineraries instead of plain text, and handle refunds and rebookings.
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Amazon partners with Uber Eats, giving U.S. Prime members free delivery on restaurant orders of $25 or more placed through Amazon, with no Uber account needed.
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Cyber, a security model that finds and exploits software flaws so defenders can patch them, starting with vetted customers in its Daybreak Red program.
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Zipline raises $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, partnering with Walmart to add 300 U.S. sites where drones deliver orders in minutes.
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Google releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, a video model that makes clips up to 15 seconds long and costs developers 30% less than its predecessor.
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Tesla plans to end Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 to build more of its driverless Cybercab robotaxis.
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Meta launches real-time voice chats for its Muse agent, letting U.S. users video-call Muse’s animated avatar and choose from hundreds of voices.
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TikTok launches a stand-alone TikTok Shop app in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, letting users shop via videos or livestreams and get app-only deals.
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Aina unveils the Aina Ring, a $399 smart ring with a screen that predicts users’ next actions and lets them approve each with a thumb flick, shipping January 2027.
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Perplexity launches Teammates, AI agents that manage ongoing work on their own and message coworkers on Slack.
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Mercury introduces Agent Controls, letting customers see which AI agents can access their accounts, track agent activity, and disconnect them in seconds.
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World Labs debuts Frameboy, a web demo for exploring 3D worlds its Atlas model generates in real time at up to 15 frames per second.
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Quest launches as a personal AI agent that maps users’ lives from their apps and acts on their behalf.
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New Fortune video: Ruth Umoh tours Luma, the $4B AI video startup, to explore how AI is cutting film production costs, what AI video still can’t do, and why studios won’t say how much they use AI.
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Masters of Scale Summit 2026: Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis joins Reid Hoffman to discuss the danger of self-improving AI without human oversight, why the industry needs shared standards and auditors, and why AI should be a tool rather than a conscious being.
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New Sourcery episode: Molly O’Shea sits down with Planet Labs co-founder and CEO Will Marshall to discuss why AI data centers could be cheaper in space, the company’s Project Suncatcher work with Google, and its growing defense business.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you on Monday.
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