Apple is preparing to launch search ads inside Apple Maps this summer, letting businesses bid on queries the same way they do in Google Maps. An Italian restaurant could bid on "Italian food" and land the top spot when someone nearby searches. Apple's services division already pulls in $100B+ annually, and its ad unit is projected to hit $8.5B this year. If you run anything with a physical location, this is a new channel to watch. (Bloomberg)

Revolut's 2025 numbers are staggering: revenue up 46%, profit before tax up 57% to $2.3B, and customer balances jumped 66%. The company now serves 68.3 million retail customers and filed for a US national bank charter this month. It gained full UK banking status in March and launched in Mexico in January. Next target: 100 million customers by mid-2027. Fifth consecutive profitable year. (Euronews)

Elliott Investment Management built a multibillion-dollar stake in Synopsys, the company whose design tools are used to build virtually every AI chip on the planet. SNPS jumped ~3% on the news. Elliott's play: push Synopsys to "align operational execution, profitability, and monetization" with its position as the backbone of the semiconductor ecosystem. Nvidia's Jensen Huang said it plainly: "Synopsys tool users are gonna go through the roof." Customers include Nvidia, Tesla, Alphabet, and Intel. (CNBC)

Doctronic raised a $40 million Series B led by Abstract and Lightspeed, bringing total funding to $65 million in under a year. The kicker: Doctronic became the first company in the U.S. where an AI can legally renew prescriptions through a state-backed pilot in Utah. The company's bot talks to patients, then connects them with a clinician via telehealth for $39. It's on pace for $10M+ in revenue this year and is now in talks with regulators in other states. (STAT News)

Luma AI publicly released Uni-1, the first image model that reasons through intentions before generating images. It tops Google's Nano Banana 2 and OpenAI's GPT Image 1.5 on logic-based benchmarks, nearly matches Gemini 3 Pro on object detection, and costs 10-30% less at high resolution. The architecture is different from traditional diffusion models: Uni-1 is an autoregressive transformer that plans its output token by token. Already powering Luma's agentic creative platform. (VentureBeat)

Zipline added $200M to its Series H, pushing the total round to $800M at a $7.6B valuation. The reason: delivery volume in January and February beat the company's own forecasts, driven by repeat orders from customers who tried the service once and kept coming back. CEO Keller Cliffton said "things have moved a little faster than we expected." Zipline is expanding to at least four new US cities this year, including Houston, Phoenix, and Seattle. (TechCrunch)

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