Spotify users on iOS 27 can now ask Siri to play music without having to say ‘on Spotify’
Siri can now learn users’ preferred music app, allowing Spotify listeners to request songs, podcasts, and playlists without specifying which app to use.
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Bumble agrees to a $1.3B acquisition deal as online dating faces a reset
After years of declining subscriber numbers and falling revenue, Bumble just agreed to a $1.3 billion acquisition.
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SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one subscription
The new X Subscription combines X’s paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.
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Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
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Bumble reportedly in talks to go private at a valuation of about $1bn
Ithaca Holdings is in advanced talks to buy Bumble and take the dating app private, in a deal that would value it at about $1 billion. Reuters reported the talks, citing one source familiar with the matter. We have not independently confirmed the report, and neither company replied when Reuters asked for comment. Investors moved fast, […]
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WhatsApp may soon let users schedule messages
WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets users schedule messages between ten minutes and two weeks ahead, spotted in an Android beta by WaBetaInfo. The main business use for it, sending work messages outside hours, is regulated across much of Europe, and nothing marks a delivered message as scheduled. WhatsApp is testing a way to […]
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Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1
From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts move to Gemini Flash-Lite only, according to Google’s Gemini Apps Help page. The change comes three days after Google released Nano Banana 2.1, a new image model built on Gemini 3.6 Flash. Subscribers to […]
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Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg told them Muse was ready to launch despite the risks, according to three […]
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Amazon replaces Fire tablets with Android Alexa Tablets from $229.99
Amazon is replacing its Fire tablets with a new line of Alexa Tablets. They are the first Amazon tablets to run Android with full access to the Google Play Store. The company announced three models on Thursday, from $229.99 to $549.99. All three ship on 14 October in the US, Canada and Mexico, and on […]
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Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline
Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight, is free to use and runs on macOS using the company’s on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. Similar to AI note-taking apps like Granola and Wispr Flow, Foresight summarizes […]
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