AI just made it onto your iPhone.

At WWDC this week, Apple finally joined the GenAI race, announcing deep AI integrations across iOS, Siri, and apps you actually use. 

Even Apple couldn’t ignore the shift.

And that’s the theme this week. Whether it’s underwriting loans, building banks, or tracking your dog’s mood, AI is moving from buzzword to backbone.

Embedded, invisible, and often running the show.

Here’s what that looks like across industries right now.

📈 How are companies using AI?

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➜ Search That Actually Works. Best Buy revamped its online and in-app search with a new GenAI layer that delivers context-aware, human-like results. It bridges structured and unstructured data to help shoppers find products in seconds—not 10 tabs later.
Retail Dive

➜ The Bank, Rebuilt. Griffin is pioneering what it calls an “agentic bank”—relying on AI agents to power operations, compliance, and decision-making. It’s not just a digital bank with AI features; it’s AI at the foundation.
Finextra

➜ The Cockpit for Fintech AI. Alipay’s new GenAI Cockpit offers fintechs a central command center to manage and deploy AI across business functions. From marketing to fraud detection, it promises speed, scalability, and smarter decisions at every level.
CFOTech

➜ Checkout Gets Personal. Bolt and Palantir have joined forces to launch what they call “Checkout 2.0”—a hyper-personalized, AI-powered checkout experience. The goal? No more generic flows. Just faster, frictionless, data-driven decisions.
Financial IT

➜ Embedded Lending, Upgraded. Liberis just launched ADA, an AI-powered underwriting agent designed to optimize decision-making in embedded finance. It analyzes data streams in real time, balancing speed with risk management.
FF News

💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ Dogs, Decoded. Fi’s new AI-powered dog collar doesn’t just track steps—it monitors behavior and health in real time. It’s bringing predictive analytics to the world of pets, and your vet might soon be getting insights from a wearable.
Tech Times

➜ Design for Devs, Finally. Figma’s new Dev Mode is in open beta, featuring a Multi-Contextual Parser (MCP) that translates designs into clean, usable code. It’s like handing your developers a spec sheet and a prototype—with no extra meetings required.
The Verge

➜ Training Data, Super-Sized. EleutherAI just released one of the largest licensed + open-domain text datasets ever. It’s a treasure trove for training transparent, legally sound language models—especially for enterprises with high compliance needs.
TechCrunch

➜ Robots Learn the Real World. Hugging Face has dropped a new robotics foundation model designed for real-world interaction—moving beyond simulated environments to power industrial machines, drones, and assistants.
Yahoo Finance

➜ Business Chat, Upgraded. OpenAI added new enterprise-grade features to ChatGPT, including team workspaces, secure integrations, and improved API orchestration. It’s moving from clever chatbot to a serious business assistant.
PYMNTS

➜ The Most Expressive Text-to-Speech Model. ElevenLabs teased a new feature that lets users clone voices more accurately and with greater emotional range—think voiceovers, narration, and even real-time interaction at studio-quality fidelity.
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