Webflow buys AI content-generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite

Founded in 2024, Vidoso uses large language models to help organizations generate marketing collateral like images, presentations, video clips, blog posts, and social media content.

Bumble to launch an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’

Bumble’s new AI assistant Bee will move the dating app beyond the swipe by matching people based on compatibility and goals.

Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now
Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now

Anthropic’s latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, rather than in its side panel. As an example, Anthropic says a conversation about […]

Disney+ is rolling out its TikTok-like ‘Verts’ short-form video feed

Following the success of TikTok and Instagram Reels, Verts is designed to boost daily engagement and reach mobile-first viewers, all while increasing discovery across Disney+’s catalog.

Google Maps is getting an AI ‘Ask Maps’ feature and upgraded ‘immersive’ navigation

The tech giant says the “Immersive Navigation” launch is the biggest update to Maps in over a decade.

Google Play is adding new paid and PC games, game trials, community posts, and more

The updates indicate that Google is focused on transforming Google Play into an enhanced gaming hub.

Ride-hailing inDrive acquires Pakistan’s Krave Mart to bolster grocery delivery

inDrive has closed its acquisition of KraveMart, expanding grocery delivery in a market dominated by Foodpanda.

Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse

AltStore PAL now supports the fediverse, using its own Mastodon server to let iOS developers share app updates and alerts across platforms like Mastodon and Threads.

WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net

WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signup, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.