Apple closes WWDC 2026 with a fully rebuilt, chatbot-style Siri and a leadership handoff from Tim Cook, while confirming Google's Gemini will power it in a roughly one-billion-dollar-a-year deal that puts Gemini across more than two billion Apple devices. Anthropic's Claude becomes a selectable option inside Apple Intelligence, its biggest consumer expansion yet. Industrial-AI startup PhysicsX raises 300 million dollars led by Temasek, PointFive lands 60 million to tame cloud and GPU spend, and stealth security startup A Security emerges with 37 million for autonomous pentesting. Edge Markets raises 29.2 million to build payment rails for prediction markets, Companion.energy secures seed funding for AI energy optimization, Lexful and Reset close seed rounds for IT knowledge and earned-wage access, and ex-FTC chair Jon Leibowitz's InfoHawk raises to detect AI-driven misinformation. We close with fresh data showing AI cited in 55 percent of this year's layoff events.
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