Canva doubles down on AI and marketing automation with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions

Canva says the acquisitions add strengths in agentic AI, data infrastructure, marketing automation, and customer engagement.

Astropad’s Workbench reimagines remote desktop for AI agents, not IT support

Astropad’s Workbench lets users remotely monitor and control AI agents on Mac Minis from iPhone or iPad, with low-latency streaming and mobile access.

Atlassian launches visual AI tools and third-party agents in Confluence

Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.

X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok

New automatic translations and photo editing on X are powered by the company’s flagship AI model.

Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos
Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos

In short: A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing the platform’s security checks, the latest in a series of privacy and securit…

This app warns you before every jump scare in a horror movie

Binge is a new movie tracker for iPhone that warns you before jump scares using Apple’s Live Activities.

Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos
Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos

In short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a six-month campaign to weave AI into every layer of Ma…

Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them
Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them

Google’s Chrome browser is getting a couple of new features, both of them extremely welcome and wildly overdue. The first is a reading mode, which does what it already does in most other browsers: strip out a lot of website cruft to make pages easier to read. Reading mode is good, you should use it, […]

Chrome is finally getting vertical tabs

Google Chrome’s latest update brings vertical tabs and a cleaner Reading Mode to help manage cluttered browsing.

Binge is a movie tracking app that warns you of jump scares in real time

The app uses iPhone Live Activities to alert you when scary scenes are about to happen, while also tracking what to watch and where to stream it.