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Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stool

Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first Xbox console. The nine-piece Yxstaby collection (good luck pronouncing that) includes a TV stand, laptop stand, side table, lounge chair, and multi-functional toolbox, with standout products like a stool, cushion, […]

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Adobe Firefly can now generate music, speech and sound effects

Adobe Firefly’s audio tools became generally available on Thursday. Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects now sit beside the image, video and design tools in its creative AI studio. Each runs on a different model. Generate Music uses the Firefly Music Model and produces original tracks tuned to a video’s length and mood. […]

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Canva’s backers cut $7.1bn from its valuation, and its own valuer cut more

Emma Rapaport and Paul Smith reported the markdown for the Australian Financial Review on 14 August. The figure appears two ways and both are correct. It is $7.1bn in US dollars, and A$10bn, which is the number most headlines carried. The cut takes Blackbird and Airtree’s mark from $42bn to $34.9bn, a drop of 17%. […]

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Microsoft is killing its AI mascot, ten months after building it

The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice experience and into Learn Live as a tutor. The whole thing sits inside a bigger change. Microsoft has started merging its […]

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Instagram changed its logo. The bit you actually tap is the same

Instagram changed its wordmark on Thursday. A wordmark is the written name, the word “Instagram” as it appears at the top of the app. It is not the icon. The pink and orange gradient square on your home screen is untouched. The change itself is small. The new type carries cursive curves on the letters […]

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This is Instagram’s new logo

Instagram has unveiled a new wordmark, moving away from the recognizable cursive typeface it’s used over the last decade. The updated wordmark is a strange mix of half-cursive half-print that’s somehow less ligible than its predecessor. Like, that totally says “Instgzam”, right? “The wordmark at the top of the app hasn’t changed in 10 years, […]

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Adobe just put more than 70 of its tools inside ChatGPT

Adobe’s whole business is the apps creative professionals open every day. This week it put more than 70 of those tools inside a rival’s chatbot. The company has launched a single Adobe plugin for ChatGPT that pulls in Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Express, and its Firefly generative models. It replaces the handful of […]

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Figma grew 48% and raised its outlook. The stock fell 16% because of AI costs

Figma did almost everything a young public company is asked to do. Revenue rose 48% to $370.1m, beating estimates, its third straight quarter of speeding growth. It raised its full-year forecast. The stock fell about 16% after hours anyway. The reason sits a few lines down the income statement. Building and running AI is expensive, […]

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Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.

Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in additional private support from alumni and donors including leaders in the Bay Area […]

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