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  • Anthropic's revenue explodes to $65B

  • Gemini moves into Chrome on Android

  • Alibaba fires back at Meta with laptop-ready Qwen

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Perplexity gave millions of Indians free access to its premium AI, and now the numbers are getting interesting. The giveaway helped drive a huge wave of users, while the company still saw revenue climb even after the free offer stopped taking new users.

Google wanted Gemini to know your pets by name. One tester had three cats, and the AI repeatedly confused them with each other, turning a clever smart-home feature into a very confused pet sitter. The idea is futuristic. The cats, apparently, were not impressed.

Claude isn't just gaining users. It's making serious money. Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate passed $65 billion in July, up sharply from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of 2025. The AI race is quickly turning into a race for revenue, too.

Chrome on Android is getting a new passenger. Gemini is now available to U.S. Android users inside the browser, where it can help understand pages, search across what you're viewing, and handle web tasks without making you jump between apps. Your browser is starting to look a lot more like an AI assistant.

For years, teenagers have been using the same ChatGPT experience as everyone else. OpenAI is now introducing a dedicated version for teens, with age-appropriate safeguards designed around the way younger users interact with AI.

The bigger shift is that OpenAI is treating teen AI use as its own category, with protections around sensitive conversations, stronger parental controls, and systems designed to identify when a user may be under 18.

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The next AI battleground might not be another giant data center. Alibaba and Meta are exploring ways to bring Qwen's open-weight models directly to laptops, pushing more capable AI closer to the device in front of you.

That could mean less reliance on the cloud for everyday AI tasks, with models running locally instead of sending everything back to a remote server. It also points to a bigger shift: the race to make AI more powerful isn't only happening in the cloud anymore.

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