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YouTube Music adds Ask Music and Your Podcast Lineup
The conversational search tool spans 300 million songs; a weekly AI-narrated guide handles podcast discovery.
Spotify opens its recommendation algorithm to US users with Taste Profile
Premium subscribers 18 and up can now edit their listening profile in plain English to reshape Discover Weekly and Home feed suggestions.
Rabbit unbundles its AI agent from the R1, ships OS3 for Windows, Mac, and Linux
The startup halts R1 hardware production and pivots to a cloud-orchestrated agent that runs locally across up to five paired devices.
Vocci ships a $249 AI ring for meeting recording and transcription
The 6-gram titanium ring records eight hours per charge, but the software and privacy design lag the hardware.
Petlibro's Granary 2 uses AI cameras to feed up to 10 cats individually
The $189.99 Granary 2 Vision recognizes individual cats and tracks their intake, part of a four-model lineup priced $129.99 to $249.99.
Meta's Muse lands on Mac with permission-gated desktop control
The AI agent can now open files, messages, calendar, notes and mail on macOS, with opt-in access and per-action approvals.
Anthropic relaunches Claude Code Projects to orchestrate multiple agents in the cloud
The revamped Projects feature runs parallel Claude Code threads on branched repos, with a coordinator resolving conflicts as pull requests.
Pinterest launches Restyle, an AI feature that redecorates your room from a photo
The beta tool, built on Pinterest Intelligence, lets users swap furniture, art, and paint in a photo of their own space before buying.
Snap makes a second pitch for its $2,200 Specs smart glasses
New AI, HBO Max and Spotify integrations, and an enterprise program aim to justify a price that drew jeers at launch.
Snap launches Specs Intelligence, an anticipatory AI assistant for iOS and Mac
Snap's new assistant connects to Gmail and Slack to surface tasks before you ask, launching alongside its first consumer AR glasses.
Meta opens WhatsApp Business setup to AI coding agents via MCP
A new Model Context Protocol server lets Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT provision WhatsApp Business accounts through chat.
Ex-TikTok duo launch Superpose, an AI pose coach for iPhone cameras
Superpose has generated 190,000 poses across 22,000 downloads since July, backed by $2.2M from Khosla Ventures and Meitu.
Daydream taps Apple Intelligence to shop outfits from your camera roll
The fashion app's new iOS 27 integration turns saved screenshots into shoppable results across 3 million products and 325 retailers.
Apple ships redesigned Siri in iOS 27, built on Google's Gemini
After more than two years of delays, Apple's overhauled assistant handles multi-step requests, on-screen context, and camera-based queries.
Perplexity brings on-device Portable Computer agent to Windows RTX PCs
The local agent runs Qwen 3.8 27B on GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs with 24GB+ VRAM, keeping sensitive files off the cloud.
Slack lets users vibe-code dashboards and reports inside chats with Slackforce Surfaces
Slackbot can now generate interactive dashboards, polls, and microsites from a plain-English prompt, pulling live data from Salesforce and Google Drive.
Nvidia expands AI for Media at IBC with 99.3% synthetic video detection
New SDKs and NIM microservices target live sports, broadcast authentication, and multilingual dubbing across a $1B+ media stack.
Shipt launches Ask Shipt, an AI cart builder, as delivery apps race to automate grocery lists
Target's same-day delivery arm joins Instacart, Uber Eats, and DoorDash in turning natural-language prompts into ready-to-buy carts.
Instacart launches Clementine, an AI assistant that turns chats into carts
The grocery giant joins Uber Eats and DoorDash in racing to become the default meal-planning tool before users open ChatGPT.
OpenAI adds Sketch to ChatGPT with Images 2.5 model update
The new @Sketch tool turns doodles into prompts, and Images 2.5 cuts generation latency by up to 50% versus Images 2.0.
Voicebox bets voice notes will replace customer feedback forms
The startup lets shoppers scan a QR code and record 20-second complaints, riding a voice-transcription accuracy shift CEO Karan Gupta dates to 2024.
Roland enters generative AI music with Melody Flip DAW plugin
The plugin ships around 250 genre-sorted Palettes and outputs MIDI loops rather than finished tracks, positioning it against Suno and Udio.
Google's Gemini Spark agent takes over Google Photos library management
The personal agent can now edit images, build albums, and pull calendar events from photos — rolling out to Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.
Ollie bets SOC 2 privacy compliance can crack the AI assistant race
The San Diego startup raised a $7.5M seed from Khosla Ventures while rival Instinct launched with $350M at a $2.5B valuation.
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