More top reads Bye bye, Cortana: Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI. Breaking 1 billion: Apple is celebrating after its services business now has over 1 billion subscribers. Stepping down: Nikola's CEO Michael Lohscheller steps down and will be replaced by chairman. Meanwhile, the company finally gets enough shareholder support to issue more shares. E=mcSalesforce: The Salesforce Einstein Studio lets you bring your own model, starting with Amazon SageMaker. Coming soon to TikTok in Europe: A "For You" feed without the TikTok algorithm. Still going . . . down: AWS revenue growth dropped to 12% in Q2, but the company remains optimistic about its cloud business. Sort of off the hook: The SEC concluded its investigation into Better.com, but didn't recommend enforcement action at this time. That's not the end of the story. Mastodon in the spotlight: Stomp brings a fully functional Mastodon app to your Apple Watch. This one or that one: Spotify has a new product to help software development teams with A/B testing. The Japanese equivalent of OpenAI: SoftBank launches SB Intuitions, which is building LLMs and generative AI in Japanese. Like Crunchbase, but for web3: EdgeIn launches with what it hopes is a faster, community-driven database for builders in web3. Still picking up the pieces: Another health data management company confirms that the personal data of 1.7 million Oregon residents was accessed by MOVEit hackers. Concentrate and ask again: Six startup founders gaze into a future-of-work crystal ball. (TC+) We have a lot to learn indeed: The U.S. could learn a lot from how the U.K. is crafting DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policy for venture capital. (TC+) Four more for your Friday: AI chip startup Tenstorrent lands $100M investment from Hyundai and Samsung AI is going 4-dimensional Amazon Music teams up with Bandsintown to let fans shop merch from popular artists Unpacking the end of Luko's solo journey in insurtech (TC+) | 
