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Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, capable of orchestrating and executing multi-step tasks on Creative Cloud applications, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 15, 2026

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe Unveils Firefly AI Assistant, Capable of Orchestrating and Executing Multi-Step Tasks on Creative Cloud Apps,…

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Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing less than 50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and aimed at “high-volume video applications”, and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 31, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Compliance at Scale and Why TAM is a Distraction with Vanta’s Christina Cacioppo Stripe co-founder John…

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Apple’s revenue from GenAI applications increased from about $35 million in January 2025 to a high of $101 million in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only about 5% from Grok (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Are startup HR teams doing well? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du,…

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Dify, which offers an open source platform for building and running AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30 million pre-Series A led by HSG at a valuation of $180 million (FinSMEs)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Sierra is getting ahead in the AI race | Co-founder Bret Taylor Grit explores what it…

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Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise applications including Slack, Intuit, Docusign and FactSet (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2026

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise applications including Slack,…

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Lightricks, maker of photo-editing app Facetune, is separating its consumer applications unit from its GenAI LTX unit to better capture the growth of AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Malwarebytes is protecting millions in the age of AI scams | Marcin Kleczynski Grit explores what…

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EnFi, which makes AI agents that analyze and make decisions on credit applications, raised a $15 million Series A led by Fintop, bringing its total funding to $22.5 million (Tatiana Bautzer/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Moltbook mania explained The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton…

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Denver-based Northslope, which creates custom AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22 million Series A round led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 1, 2026

Nathalie Breymeyer / Axios: Denver-based Northslope, which creates custom AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22 million Series A…

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A look at the rise of AI companion applications; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with more than 220 million downloads in total as of July 2025 (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Review of the year 2025”, with René Ritchie The director’s commentary track…

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OpenAI and Intuit sign multi-year agreement, expected to generate more than $100 million in OpenAI revenue, under which Intuit will deepen its use of OpenAI models and launch ChatGPT applications (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 18, 2025

Featured Podcasts Decoder with Nilay Patel: Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime A show from The Verge about…

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Japan’s combat role in Philippine war drills signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia

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Some grocers are using AI to reduce food waste and increase profit margins

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Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing wait times of up to 12 weeks in the United States, with analysts citing strong demand from power users of AI agents (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

What some executives think about using universal basic income to mitigate AI-related layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way"OpenAI policy document mentions a public wealth fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

Cerebras files for IPO on Nasdaq, reports 2025 revenue of $510 million, up 76% year-over-year, with net profit of $87.9 million, compared to net loss of $485 million in 2024 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its shift from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Browsing: applications

Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, capable of orchestrating and executing multi-step tasks on Creative Cloud applications, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing less than 50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and aimed at “high-volume video applications”, and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Apple’s revenue from GenAI applications increased from about $35 million in January 2025 to a high of $101 million in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only about 5% from Grok (Wall Street Journal)

Dify, which offers an open source platform for building and running AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30 million pre-Series A led by HSG at a valuation of $180 million (FinSMEs)

Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise applications including Slack, Intuit, Docusign and FactSet (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Lightricks, maker of photo-editing app Facetune, is separating its consumer applications unit from its GenAI LTX unit to better capture the growth of AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)

EnFi, which makes AI agents that analyze and make decisions on credit applications, raised a $15 million Series A led by Fintop, bringing its total funding to $22.5 million (Tatiana Bautzer/Reuters)

Denver-based Northslope, which creates custom AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22 million Series A round led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

A look at the rise of AI companion applications; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with more than 220 million downloads in total as of July 2025 (Financial Times)

OpenAI and Intuit sign multi-year agreement, expected to generate more than $100 million in OpenAI revenue, under which Intuit will deepen its use of OpenAI models and launch ChatGPT applications (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)