Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You…
Starbucks Just Fired A Warning Shot At Microsoft And IBM AI Apps
Starbucks Just Fired A Warning Shot At Microsoft And IBM AI Apps (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket…
Pool’s new app turns your screenshots into something useful
For years, your phone’s Camera Roll has served dual purposes. In addition to helping you revisit special moments,…
Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades
Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates,…
Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch
Skye, an iPhone app still in private testing, wants to change how people interact with AI on their…
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it’s not a social network, but…
BuzzFeed debuts AI slop apps in bid for new revenue
BuzzFeed, the U.S.-based media company known best for its quizzes, listicles, and, for a time, a Pulitzer Prize-winning…
Beijing warns tech giants to curb ‘involution’ amid AI giveaway war
China’s top market regulator has summoned the country’s leading tech companies to demand an end to “involutionary” competition,…
Meet Gizmo: a TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps
Gizmo, a TikTok-like app for vibe-coded mini applications, is offering a new way to create interactive media. The…
Consumers spent more on mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption
In 2025, consumers spent more money on non-game mobile apps than they did on games for the first…
ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped
ChatGPT is releasing its own version of Spotify Wrapped. That is, the OpenAI-owned chatbot is now rolling out…
Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps
Shanea Leven says she learned two important lessons when building her first company, CodeSee. The first lesson was knowing…