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Snowflake commits $6bn to AWS over five years, with Graviton chips at the centre

The five-year commitment is 2.4x larger than Snowflake’s 2023 AWS deal and lands as shares jump 38% on a Q1 earnings beat. The Graviton component is the part that matters strategically. Snowflake has signed a five-year, $6bn commitment to Amazon Web Services in what both companies are framing as the largest expansion of their 11-year […]

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A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket 

Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2025, as reported earlier by ABC News. In their now-unsealed complaint, prosecutors allege that Michele Spagnuolo “knew the outcome of these wagers before the trading public did because he had accessed Google’s confidential, […]

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France’s startup scene is falling behind the US and Europe, and AI is both the cause and the cure

A new report on the French tech ecosystem by Alexandre Dewez, a partner at venture firm 20VC, paints a picture of a startup scene that is growing more dependent on a handful of AI companies while the rest of the market stalls. French startups raised €6.7 billion across 411 funding rounds in 2025, a 5% decline in […]

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Spotify and Netflix are paying Jay Shetty up to $100 million to take his podcast off YouTube

Jay Shetty, the former Hindu monk turned self-help podcaster, has signed a deal to bring the video version of his show On Purpose exclusively to Spotify and Netflix. The arrangement is worth as much as $100 million over multiple years, according to people familiar with the deal cited by Bloomberg. That figure puts Shetty in […]

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Meta is charging for its AI chatbot for the first time, starting at $7.99 a month

Meta is selling subscriptions to its AI chatbot for the first time, introducing two paid tiers that put it in direct competition with OpenAI and Google for consumer AI revenue. Meta One Plus costs $7.99 per month and Meta One Premium costs $19.99 per month. Both tiers give users expanded access to image generation, video […]

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Zendesk hires serial enterprise CMO Tifenn Dano Kwan as it bets everything on AI agents

Zendesk has appointed Tifenn Dano Kwan as its new chief marketing officer, bringing in a veteran enterprise SaaS marketer as the company accelerates its pivot toward AI-powered customer service. Dano Kwan replaces Kelly Waldher, who joined the company from Google in 2023. The appointment comes at a defining moment for Zendesk. The company has spent […]

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Amazon is now selling its AI shopping technology to other retailers, and Kate Spade is the first customer

Amazon Web Services has launched a product that lets retailers build their own AI-powered shopping assistants using the same technology that powers Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping. The AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant packages architecture guidance, starter code, and hands-on support from AWS’s Generative AI Innovation Center into a solution that the company says can be deployed in […]

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