Good Morning!
I know I can’t be the only one shocked that August has begun, but there’s also something nice about a new month starting on a Saturday so we can get a quiet ramp up 😌
What You Missed This Week:
1. 📈 Apple Became the Second Company With Stock to Top $5 Trillion
Congrats to Apple for making history before this month ended. The tech giant briefly crossed a $5 trillion market capitalization earlier this week and became the second publicly traded company in history to reach the milestone. Apple stock touched an intraday high of $342.89 on Tuesday, a gain of 1.8%. (Quartz)
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3. 💰 X Money Launched in the U.S.
The long-anticipated X Money part of X started rolling out earlier this week. The payment platform, a core part of Elon Musk’s goal of X being an “everything app,” offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can customize with their X username. Are you going to use this feature? (The Verge)
4. 💸 OpenAI is Slashing Prices on Two AI Models
Running a business is expensive these days, and OpenAI is taking that to heart. The AI leader is reducing the price of two models in its GPT-5.6 family roughly three weeks after the models launched. Luna, the fastest and lowest-cost version in the GPT-5.6 lineup, will have its cost reduced by 80% while Terra, the mid-tier GPT-5.6 model, will be reduced by 20%. (Quartz)
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6. 📞 Encore AI Raised $30M to Build AI Agents That Learn From Customer Calls
Your next customer service call could be teaching AI. Encore AI, a startup that studies companies’ customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents that can work alongside customer support and sales teams or operate autonomously, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8. (TechCrunch)
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