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Privacy-focused tech company DuckDuckGo is broadening its subscription offering to include access to cutting-edge AI models through its chatbot, Duck.ai, at no additional cost. Free and Paid AI Access Duck.ai is free for all users, giving access to models such as: * Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku * Meta’
Design
Adobe is bringing its flagship video editing software Premiere to the iPhone, expanding its mobile creative suite to capture the booming short-form video market. The app is now listed on the App Store with a preorder link and an expected release date of September 30. Desktop Power, Mobile Flexibility Adobe
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Productivity software giant Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, maker of the Arc and Dia browsers, in a $610 million all-cash deal. Atlassian CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes framed the acquisition as a major leap in rethinking the role of the browser in modern knowledge work. “Today’s
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WordPress is taking its first major step into AI-powered web development with the introduction of Telex, a new experimental tool designed to help users generate custom WordPress blocks using simple text prompts. The tool was unveiled last week by CEO Matt Mullenweg during his keynote at WordCamp US 2025 in
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, announced on Thursday the release of its first agentic coding model, marking the company’s entry into one of the most competitive arenas in AI development. The model, named grok-code-fast-1, is described by xAI as a “speedy and economical” tool designed to autonomously
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Microsoft is deepening its artificial intelligence strategy with the introduction of two new models built entirely in-house, signaling a push to become more self-reliant in a field it has so far dominated through partnerships. The first, MAI-Voice-1, is the company’s debut natural speech generation model. Already integrated into Copilot
Media
Typepad, one of the earliest hosted blogging services and a contemporary of WordPress, has announced that it will officially shut down on September 30, 2025. The company shared the news in a farewell post, calling it a “difficult decision” to discontinue the service after more than two decades online. Launched
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Anthropic is rolling out a new experiment in AI-assisted browsing, announcing Tuesday that it has launched a research preview of a Chrome extension powered by its Claude AI models. Dubbed Claude for Chrome, the agent is initially being made available to 1,000 Anthropic Max subscribers—users paying between $100
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Apple may be turning to one of its biggest rivals for help in reimagining Siri. According to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is in active discussions with Google to integrate its Gemini AI technology into the iPhone’s voice assistant. The move comes as Apple faces
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One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups, Multiverse Computing, has unveiled two AI models so small they’re named after a fly’s brain and a chicken’s brain — yet they still boast impressive performance in chat, speech, and even reasoning tasks. The Donostia, Spain–based company, known for
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Anthropic is dramatically expanding the capabilities of its AI coding models, announcing that enterprise customers can now send up to one million tokens in a single prompt to its Claude Sonnet 4 model. That’s roughly 750,000 words — enough to fit The Lord of the Rings trilogy with room
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 officially launched today, and Microsoft is rolling it out across its major AI-powered products, marking one of the largest simultaneous integrations of the model to date. The next-generation AI will now power Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and more. The move brings GPT-5