Grammarly is acquiring productivity startup Coda, the company announced. As part of the deal, Coda’s CEO and co-founder Shishir Mehrotra will become the new CEO of Grammarly. The acquisition will help turn Grammarly’s AI assistant into an “AI productivity platform” thanks to the addition of Coda’s AI tools and...
Spotify Wrapped, the streamer’s highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized summary detailing your favorite artists, songs, podcasts, and more, the company this year is introducing two new features, including most notably an AI-powered podcast of your 2024 Wrapped created...
The Browser Company, the company behind Arc Browser for both desktop and mobile, teased its new web browser called Dia — and this time, it focuses on AI tools. In the last few years, the startup launched Arc on Mac and Windows and Arc Search on iOS and Android, but the company is...
Amplitude, a publicly traded company that makes digital analytics software, has acquired Command AI, an app user engagement startup formerly known as CommandBar. Most of Command AI’s 30-person, San Francisco-based team will be joining Amplitude. Command AI’s co-founder and CEO James Evans started Command AI in 2021 as...
Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries, and will add links to relevant web pages for some of those summaries as well. It’s also rolling out AI-organized search results pages in the U.S. The increasing...
Microsoft has launched its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experiences: Bing generative search. On the heels of a pilot in July, Bing generative search — albeit still under development — began rolling out to all U.S. users. The easiest way to invoke it is by searching “Bing generative...
Butterflies AI, the new social network where humans and AIs interact with each other, is launching a new Clones feature that turns you into an AI character. This latest addition builds on a feature launched to the public back in June that lets users create AI personas,...
Marketers face a complex array of variables at play when trying to optimize ad campaigns, from audience demographics to platform algorithms. With the media landscape in a constant state of evolution, it’s difficult to keep up with every new trend and technology that could impact...
Google has launched its new Pixel 9 series of phones. These devices have a ton of AI-powered features apart from having Gemini as the default assistant. The company is adding features for photo editing, plus new apps for storing and searching through screenshots on-device and an AI-powered...
Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, announced that it is testing an AI-powered search feature to assist users in narrowing down their audiobook search. Select U.S. customers can interact with “Maven,” Audible’s new personal recommendation expert that surfaces title suggestions based on users’ specific...
