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Google is stepping into Pinterest’s territory with the launch of Mixboard, an AI-powered tool that helps users create digital mood boards. Announced Wednesday, Mixboard allows anyone to generate inspiration boards using text prompts, pre-populated templates, or AI-assisted image editing—no existing image collection required. AI at the Core Unlike
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In the last decade, improved smartphone cameras fueled the rise of platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, turning casual creators into professionals. Now, a startup called Emergent wants to do the same for app development—transforming non-technical users into app builders. Founded by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, Emergent
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Spotify is giving DJs a major upgrade. The streaming giant announced Wednesday that its service now directly integrates with popular desktop DJ software including rekordbox, Serato, and djay. The new feature lets users pull their entire Spotify libraries and playlists into these programs, streamlining the process of building and performing
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Nvidia’s global AI expansion is picking up speed. Days after announcing a $5 billion stake in Intel and committing $100 billion to OpenAI, the GPU giant has struck a major partnership with China’s Alibaba. On Wednesday, Alibaba revealed that it will integrate Nvidia’s suite of AI development
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Perplexity has rolled out a new tool called Email Assistant, giving users the ability to offload routine email tasks to an AI chatbot. The feature is designed to handle essentials like scheduling meetings, organizing and prioritizing incoming emails, and even drafting responses. At launch, the Email Assistant integrates exclusively with
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WhatsApp is introducing a new translation feature that allows users to translate messages into their preferred language, the Meta-owned company announced on Tuesday. The update is designed to make cross-language communication easier across chats, groups, and Channel updates. With the new tool, users can simply long-press a message and tap
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Meta is giving its dating platform a technological boost. On Monday, the company announced that it’s introducing an AI assistant for Facebook Dating, designed to help users discover matches more tailored to their preferences. The chatbot can refine searches and profiles in real time. For example, users might ask
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Google is bringing its advanced AI assistant, Gemini, to the living room. The company announced on Monday that Gemini is now coming to Google TV, marking a major expansion of the AI platform beyond smartphones and computers. Once fully rolled out, Gemini will be available across more than 300 million
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The competition to bring cinematic-quality AI video tools to filmmakers intensified Thursday as Luma AI announced a partnership with Adobe to integrate its newest model, Ray3, into Adobe’s generative-AI suite Firefly. Starting immediately, Firefly’s paid subscribers can access Ray3 for unlimited AI-assisted video generation for two weeks, after
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Google announced Thursday that it is rolling out Gemini in Chrome to all Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S., after previously restricting the feature to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. The expansion marks a significant step in Google’s push to make its AI assistant a
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Productivity software giant Atlassian announced Thursday that it will acquire developer productivity insight platform DX in a $1 billion cash and restricted stock deal, marking its largest acquisition to date. DX helps enterprises analyze engineering team productivity and pinpoint bottlenecks that slow down development. The platform, founded five years ago
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While most of Wednesday’s Meta Connect developer conference focused on smart glasses, the company also delivered a slate of metaverse updates, headlined by the rollout of Hyperscape Capture, a tool that brings photorealistic virtual environments closer to reality. Hyperscape: Real-World Spaces, Recreated in VR Meta first previewed Hyperscape at