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Apple to let users choose between Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI models

Apple has been inching toward letting outside AI power its devices — now it’s going further.

The company plans to let users choose between rival AI models across iOS 27, due this fall, expanding beyond ChatGPT to include players like Google and Anthropic, Bloomberg reports. The difference this time: deeper integration, with outside models powering features like Siri, writing tools, and image generation across the system.

Currently, Apple’s voice assistant Siri gives users the ability to query ChatGPT, but doing so requires a clunky extra step and usage has been poor. Meanwhile, Apple’s own AI tools have fallen short. (Apple has decided to use Google’s Gemini to power Siri in the future.) It’s not clear users care which AI is under the hood — as long as it works.

Apple to Let Users Choose Rival AI Models Across Its iOS 27 Features

Apple to Let Users Choose Rival AI Models Across Its iOS 27 Features

Currently, Apple’s voice assistant Siri gives users the ability to query ChatGPT, but doing so requires a clunky extra step and usage has been poor. Meanwhile, Apple’s own AI tools have fallen short. (Apple has decided to use Google’s Gemini to power Siri in the future.) It’s not clear users care which AI is under the hood — as long as it works.

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FactSet and S&P Global fall after Anthropic releases financial services agents

FactSet and S&P Global are trading lower after Anthropic unveiled a set of AI agents meant to automate financial services work. Both stocks also sold off earlier this year after Anthropic’s Claude introduced financial research tools.

The 10 agents handle tasks like earnings analysis, market research, financial modeling, and auditing — tasks that mirror how analysts use FactSet and S&P Global’s data and research platforms.

Agents for financial services and insurance

Agents for financial services and insurance

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Big publishers sue Meta over AI training

A group of major publishers, including Elsevier, McGraw Hill, and Hachette, sued Meta on Tuesday, alleging the company used millions of pirated books and journal articles to train its Llama models. The case escalates earlier lawsuits led by individual authors, bringing in deeper-pocketed players with more coordinated legal firepower.

Meta says AI training qualifies as fair use and plans to fight the class-action lawsuit. But the stakes are rising: a similar case against Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion last year, and courts have yet to determine a consistent standard for evaluating such claims.

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Meta says AI training qualifies as fair use and plans to fight the class-action lawsuit. But the stakes are rising: a similar case against Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion last year, and courts have yet to determine a consistent standard for evaluating such claims.

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Alphabet to tap international bond markets again as AI spending surges

Alphabet is tapping European debt markets again as its AI spending ramps up.

The Google parent is selling at least €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in bonds across six tranches, according to Bloomberg. The filing says that it’s for “general corporate purposes,” and the timing aligns with its plans to spend up to $190 billion this year on data centers and other AI infrastructure. In a separate filing released today, Alphabet also said it’s issuing Canadian dollar-denominated bonds, colloquially referred to as a “maple bonds,” but no values were available.

These are the latest in a broader funding push as the company increases its already high capex expectations. Earlier this year, Alphabet raised about $20 billion in a heavily oversubscribed US bond sale and also tapped sterling and Swiss franc markets as part of a roughly $32 billion deal.

Alphabet Returns to Euro Debt Market for Latest AI Megabond Deal

Alphabet Returns to Euro Debt Market for Latest AI Megabond Deal

These are the latest in a broader funding push as the company increases its already high capex expectations. Earlier this year, Alphabet raised about $20 billion in a heavily oversubscribed US bond sale and also tapped sterling and Swiss franc markets as part of a roughly $32 billion deal.

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Tesla told European regulators it expects “EU-wide” FSD approval in second or third quarter

Weeks after Dutch regulators became the first in the EU to approve Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, internal emails viewed by Reuters show the concerns the company still faces across the bloc. That includes regulator questions about speeding, performance on icy roads, and whether calling a system that requires constant driver attention “Full Self-Driving” is misleading.

CEO Elon Musk has blamed Tesla’s weak European sales on the lack of FSD and is betting that wider approval could help turn things around.

That rollout may take longer than hoped: while Musk had pointed to earlier approval, a presentation in the correspondence reviewed by Reuters says Tesla now expects “EU-wide” clearance in the second or third quarter of 2026.

European vehicle regulators are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the matter, but the earliest possible vote would be in July.

Exclusive: Tesla faces EU skepticism over automated-driving tech, records show

Exclusive: Tesla faces EU skepticism over automated-driving tech, records show

CEO Elon Musk has blamed Tesla’s weak European sales on the lack of FSD and is betting that wider approval could help turn things around.

That rollout may take longer than hoped: while Musk had pointed to earlier approval, a presentation in the correspondence reviewed by Reuters says Tesla now expects “EU-wide” clearance in the second or third quarter of 2026.

European vehicle regulators are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the matter, but the earliest possible vote would be in July.

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