Top 21 Business Updates and Tech News Going Into July

Here are the top 21 business updates, latest technology news, and trending AI tools in digital marketing going into July:

This Week’s Latest Tech News and Business Updates

Meta has officially announced its new Oakley Meta Glasses, which will be coming out soon.
Thinking Machines Lab, a secretive AI startup, has closed a $2 billion seed round. The six-month-old startup is now valued at $10 billion.
Tesla created a funny and cool Easter egg in its Robotaxi App. When you try to tip, the screen appears with “Just Kidding.”
Apple is allegedly in talks to acquire Perplexity to strengthen its AI capabilities.
Harvey, an AI tool for law firms, raised $300 million and is valued at $5B, taking the step to becoming the legal AI for lawyers worldwide.
Aflac, a US insurance giant, confirmed in a filing that customers’ data was stolen in a cyberattack.
WisprFlowAI announced that it raised $30 million in funding to build the voice interface for the AI era.
Amazon is investing $4 billion to triple the size of its delivery network by 2026 to bring faster Prime delivery speeds to thousands of cities.
ElevenLabs, an AI voice company, launched a standalone voice generation app for IOS and Android users.
Uber announced that Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are coming to Atlanta and that they can start signing up through the Uber app.
Microsoft announced its new Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, partnering with Meta to expand Xbox Cloud Gaming on Quest Meta Headsets.
Google introduced its new Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent built for developers.
Apple announced that Apple Sports added tennis to its list of supported sports just in time for Wimbledon.
Bumble, a dating app, announced that it will be l aying off 30% of its workforce, saving about $40 million a year to reinvest into product and tech development.
Kodiak Robotics has partnered with Vay to expand its vision for self-driving trucks, strengthening its operational and safety roles with this relationship.
Google has launched Offerwall, a tool that helps publishers generate revenue beyond just ads.
YouTube has announced AI overviews to help users find information and content more easily.
Suno, an AI music company, has just acquired Wavtool for its AI music editing tools and interface.
Michael Intrator: According to Bloomberg, his net worth has skyrocketed to $10B after 3 months of his AI firm went public.
Elon Musk has fired Tesla’s head of operations in North America and Europe.
US and French Authorities have arrested the Breach Forum hackers for being part of notorious crimes and cyberattacks.

Apollo – Sales engagement and engagement platform that generates prospecting, lead generation, and outreach.
Tempus – A healthcare technology company that uses AI and molecular data to advance precision medicine.
Venice – a privacy-focused, decentralized AI platform offering uncensored image, text, and code generation.
Surge – a data-labeled platform specializing in high-quality human feedback for training advanced AI models.
Turnitin – a tool that detects AI-generated texts in student submissions using pattern analysis.
Higgsfield – a generative video platform that enables creators to produce cinematic-quality videos.
IBM watsonx – a code assistant that leverages Granite models to augment developer skill sets, simplifying, and automating, your development and modernization efforts.
Janitor – a chatbot platform for creating and interacting with customizable AI characters.
Robin – an AI-powered legal assistant that automates drafting, reviewing, analyzing, and accelerating processes.