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Jul 4Cursor Raises $100M Series B at $2.5B ValuationJul 4Canva Locks Core AI Tools Behind $15/Month PaywallJul 4ElevenLabs Launches Real-Time Voice CloningJul 4Midjourney Web Editor Is Live — No Discord RequiredJul 4Perplexity Pro Jumps to $20/Month — Up From $17Jul 4Gemini 2.5 Pro Gets Smarter — But Still Costs YouJul 4Claude 4 Opus Lands — Anthropic's Priciest Model YetJul 3GPT-5 Is Here: Smarter, But It'll Cost You MoreJul 3Google AI Overviews Hits 100+ CountriesJul 3DeepSeek R2 Goes Open Source: What It Actually MeansJul 3Canva Locks More AI Features Behind Paid PlansJul 3ElevenLabs Now Clones Your Voice in Real TimeJul 3Cursor Raises $105M Series B at $2.6B ValuationJul 3Midjourney Finally Has a Web EditorJul 3Perplexity Pro Goes Up — Here's What You Now PayJul 3Gemini 2.5 Pro Gets Smarter, But Free Tier Gets SqueezedJul 3Claude 4 Opus Launches — Here's What It Actually CostsJul 3GPT-5 Is Here: What It Costs and Who It's ForJul 3GPT-5 Is Here: What OpenAI Actually ChangedJul 3Anthropic Launches Claude Cowork Workspace Tier