AI Developments and Current Business News Today: June 17

Here are the latest AI developments, features, trending AI tools, and current business news on June 17, 2025:

AI Developments and Business News

Patreon is increasing the cut it will get from new content creators starting on August 4, 2025.
Zoomcar has said a hacker got access to the personal data of over 8.4 million users.
Alta has raised $11 million and is excited to offer AI styling and personal shopping to users worldwide.
WhatsApp has added ads to its status screen to help you find more businesses and channels. Take advantage of this new opportunity to start advertising on WhatsApp.
Aspora raised $93 million to transform banking for global Indians.
Microsoft announced that it is expanding its sovereign cloud to empower European organizations.
Nvidia partners with Deutsche Telekom to advance Germany’s sovereign AI.
Trump Mobile launched a bold new wireless service for Americans, stepping into the digital space.

Sage – AI-powered solution tool for accounting and finance tasks.
BairesDev – A software development company that provides tech solutions.
Muah – An AI-powered companion platform offering interactive chat and voice with customizable characters.
Perplexity – An AI search engine that answers specific queries with proven real-time data.
Gemini – A multimode AI assistant designed to handle images, texts, coding, and other personalized tasks.
Merlin – All-in-one AI assistant powered by other AI models to help with content creation, research, summarization, and more.
BlackBox – provides AI-powered code debugging and completion tools to enhance developer productivity.
FireFlies – An AI note taker designed to help users with meetings, analyzing, researching, and summarizing team conversations.