News Roundup
Perplexity AI Hits $100M ARR, Explores Publisher Revenue Share Perplexity AI reached $100 million ARR this month and is in conversations with major publishers about a revenue-sharing model for content used in AI search results. The publisher conversations follow a series of public disputes about Perplexity’s crawling practices. A revenue share would be the first attempt by an AI search product to formally monetize the publisher relationship rather than litigate it. source
Apple’s Siri Overhaul Slips to iOS 19.1 Apple internally pushed the full on-device LLM integration for Siri from iOS 19.0 to iOS 19.1, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The iOS 19.0 release, expected in September 2026, will ship with expanded contextual awareness but not the full “personal intelligence” feature set announced at WWDC 2025. The slip is the third delay for Siri’s AI overhaul since Apple Intelligence was first previewed. source
Cohere Announces Command R+ Enterprise Deployment Package Cohere released Command R+ in a new enterprise deployment package that includes on-premises deployment support, private VPC hosting, and a 99.9% SLA. The package targets regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, legal — where data residency requirements make hosted API models non-viable. Cohere is one of the few frontier model providers with a credible on-premises story; this announcement formalizes it. source
Hugging Face Launches Inference Providers Marketplace Hugging Face launched an Inference Providers marketplace that lets model publishers set their own inference pricing and keeps 20% of revenue. The initial set of providers includes Fireworks AI, Together AI, and Replicate. The marketplace creates direct competition between inference providers on cost and latency for the same underlying model — which should drive prices down further while giving model publishers a new monetization channel. source
EU AI Act Compliance Deadline for High-Risk Systems: August 2026 The European Commission confirmed the August 2026 compliance deadline for high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act, with no extensions under consideration. High-risk categories include AI systems used in employment decisions, credit scoring, and law enforcement. Companies that have not yet started conformity assessments are now 5 months from a hard deadline, with assessment processes estimated at 3–6 months for complex systems. source