Google’s AI Mode can now help you find products in stock nearby
Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you’re interested in.
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Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals
The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.
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Uber will now pick up your returns from your doorstep
The new returns feature is the company’s latest effort to become an everything app. There are limitations to the new service, and there is, of course, a courier fee.
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Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive
New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.
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Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. Zoom will show a badge on verified participants’ tile.
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The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why
New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.
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Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1% and 3% of the total streams, and 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.
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WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription, but it is mainly cosmetic
WhatsApp is testing a subscription after Meta debuted a similar subscription for Instagram earlier this year.
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Google Photos adds new touch-up tools for ‘quick’ fixes
You can use the new tools to remove blemishes, refine skin texture, brighten eyes, or whiten teeth in photos.
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Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO, John Ternus taking over
The transition has been expected for some time and ends one of the longer and more impactful runs a CEO has had at any company. Cook had inherited a company that many industry watchers and enthusiasts struggled to separate from its famed founder. What he leaves behind is a $4 trillion business with annual revenue that has more than quadrupled on his watch.
