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The market for AI-generated voice models is massive. Creative use cases require AI voice models to be more expressive, while enterprises looking to automate customer support and sales ops need them to be more steerable. Palo Alto-based Fish Audio wants to cater to all of those us

Boeing reported a wider-than-expected loss for the second quarter as the aircraft manufacturer's long-delayed Air Force One program weighed down results. Boeing took a $280 million loss on the program to deliver two 747s that will serve as the next-generation Air Force One aircra

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The world is facing a resurgence of HIV cases after global funding fell to its lowest level in nearly two decades last year, putting tens of thousands of lives at risk. Washington accounted for almost three-quarters of international AIDS funding before US President Donald Trump s

Apple is introducing a new leasing program in partnership with the “buy now, pay later” service Klarna, giving eligible customers the option to pay for Apple devices through monthly installments, the tech giant announced on Tuesday. The program is available for the iPhone, Apple

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Up until recently, measles vaccination has been so effective that there’s been little medical or financial incentive to develop treatments for the disease. But as measles cases hit a 35-year high and vaccination rates continue to decline in the US, a handful of biotech companies

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is focused on building open-ended self-improving systems, a potentially compute-inte

A fishing ban on China’s Yangtze River has led to a remarkable recovery of biomass in the waterway. The 6,300-kilometer (3,900-mile) river, Asia’s longest, had for decades been an environmental disaster: It was a depository of industrial waste, sewage and rubbish, while unsustain

Out-of-control wildfires represent France’s greatest crisis since World War II, President Emmanuel Macron said. More than 250,000 people have been evacuated, with fires threatening the outskirts of Bordeaux and raging through popular tourist areas and wine regions. Neighboring Sp

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AI note-taking app Granola is launching an app for the Apple Watch in hopes that its users will want to record meetings and take notes without using their smartphones. Users can set the Granola app as one of the watch faces to start transcribing at any time. The app can also surf

Senators say they are making headway in talks on a bipartisan bill funding the government through the election, even as rank-and-file Republicans doubt that Democratic leaders will go for it. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, said that text of the stopgap fundin

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Apple customers in the U.S. will soon be able to lease an iPhone for up to two years at a price starting at $17.99 per month, the company announced on Tuesday. The program, called Upgrade, is a partnership with Klarna, a provider of buy now, pay later loans, that will be offered

Apple customers in the U.S. will soon be able to lease an iPhone for up to two years at a price starting at $17.99 per month, the company announced on Tuesday. The program, called Upgrade, is a partnership with Klarna, a provider of buy now, pay later loans, that will be offered

Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world’s most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a “general-purp

US measles cases hit a 35-year high as vaccination rates fall. Though still far short of 1990s levels, before widespread vaccination drove a sharp drop in measles cases, the 2,295 recorded this year are more than all of 2025. And 93% of this year’s patients are unvaccinated. Meas

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. With another decline yesterday, SpaceX has now relinquished the equivalent of Tesla's entire market valuation. Yes, you read that correctly. Nasdaq-100 futures are fa

US President Donald Trump will meet the leaders of Israel and Ukraine in Washington today as fears grow that their conflicts may be going global. The wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are increasingly intertwined: Russia’s purchases of Iranian Shahed drones have boosted Tehran’

We just moved 10+ years of data off Marketo into Salesforce Marketing Cloud. It took us years to get there. The final straw was the rate-limiting in their API made it unusable for 10K, our AI agent for marketing and revenue. The renewal came up, they raised prices 12%-20% again w

The Scoop In the decades since Michael Bloomberg founded his bond-pricing data provider and built it into a media and markets giant, the question has swirled on Wall Street: What does he plan to do with it? Some clues: Executives from the company have been having preliminary talk

Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology — even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech

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When I heard the AI had escaped, I was out on a Wyoming river. Yes, I mysteriously had cell service while fly fishing with my family on the Salt River (among the only rivers in the world to flow north). I promise: I wasn’t intentionally checking Slack—it was a pure, predictable r

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16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console Microsoft has promised a full post-incident review. Xbox chief technology officer Scott Van Vliet said in a post o

The News A tanker that is part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet and which is under European sanctions is leaking oil into the sea off the coast of Oman, according to expert analysis of satellite imagery. The Caroline Bezengi, a 274-meter Suezmax vessel, had loaded oil at the Ru