After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlist” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S. and Canada, Spotify announced that it’s rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden. The Prompted Playlist feature allows users to create custom playlists by simply describing...
Etsy is selling Depop, a secondhand clothing app popular with Gen Z and millennials, to eBay for $1.2 billion in cash, the company announced. Etsy says the deal will allow it to focus on its own marketplace. The deal comes nearly five years after Etsy acquired Depop for...
As AI becomes the dominant theme for marketers across industries, many are seeing similar messaging from the competition. As the volume around AI rises, attention is becoming harder to earn in general, pushing marketers to rethink how they are positioning AI. How are marketers making...
Creative company Canva ended 2025 on a high note with a 20% increase in monthly active users, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools. Canva had more than 265 million monthly active users and over 31 million paid users in 2025. The...
For agencies, scaling successfully presents an all-too familiar challenge: growing without sacrificing quality, culture or values. As teams expand and client demands evolve, agencies often reach moments where continuing as-is no longer works, and a shift in approach becomes necessary. While those inflection points look...
Reddit suggested that its AI-powered search engine could be the next big opportunity for its business — not just in terms of product, but also as a revenue driver impacting its bottom line. It offered an update on its plans to merge traditional and AI...
OpenAI announced it’s beginning to test ads in the U.S. for users on its Free and Go subscription tiers. The newer Go plan is a low-cost subscription at $8 per month in the U.S. and was introduced globally in mid-January. Subscribers to OpenAI’s paid plans, including its Plus,...
Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. The company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex, directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate is available to all Apple Developers today from...
Fitbit founders James Park and Eric Friedman have announced the launch of a new AI startup called Luffu that aims to help families proactively monitor their health. The duo are developing an “intelligent family care system” that will start with an app experience and then expand into...
A few years ago, Selina Tobaccowala’s daughter started leaving Post-it notes around the house, telling everyone to “turn off the lights” and such. Tobaccowala had just sold her last startup, Gixo, to OpenFit and was looking for a new challenge. Without a background in climate science...
