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Adobe announced on Tuesday that its AI assistant for Photoshop is becoming available to users in beta on the web and in the mobile apps. The company is also adding new AI-powered image editing capabilities to Firefly, its tool for media generation and editing. The creative tooling company first announced an AI assistant for Photoshop during its MAX event in October. The feature, now rolling out to users, can help them remove objects or people from images, change colors, or adjust lighting through prompts. Users can also use natural language to instruct the AI assistant to add soft glow, crop…
Google rolled out multiple new AI features today for its core Workspace products: Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. These apps now include additional tools powered by Gemini, Google’s AI assistant. The features range from generating entire rough drafts in your Docs to finding information tucked away in the recesses of your Drive.This Google launch is part of a larger trend in 2026, in which major software developers are continuing to bake generative-AI-based features into core user experiences—despite the lingering distaste many in the US have for tools like these. The features are coming first to English-speaking subscribers of Google’s…
The more AI evolves, the more apparent it becomes that marketing is not just susceptible, it is peculiarly vulnerable to its machinations. That was confirmed last week when Anthropic, the cerebral company behind Claude, launched its new Labor Market Impacts report. Every conversation about AI and marketing asks the wrong questions: Does AI write better ads? Do consumers accept it? Will Cannes Lions need a rethink? But all of that is barely 20% of what marketers do. The other 80% looks even more vulnerable to the approaching AI threat.Think about the full scope of marketing. Commissioning and interpreting consumer research. Analysing data. Sizing…
Sandbar, a startup by former Meta employees Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong, attracted much attention last year when it showed off its note-taking wearable, the Stream ring. The company has now raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures. The company’s smart ring is focused on note-taking, similar to products by Plaud or Omi, and not health-tracking like Oura’s products. The ring has a microphone that’s off by default, but can be activated using a flat, touch-sensitive panel at the top. You can hold this touch panel to record notes, chat with an…
Coffee is the original biohack and the nation’s most popular productivity tool. As we adjust to the changeover to daylight saving time, the caffeine-addicted WIRED Reviews team is writing about our favorite coffee brewing routines and devices. Today, reviewer Louryn Strampe explains why she keeps life simple with a Keurig. Look out for other Java.Base stories about other WIRED writers’ favorite brewing methods.My colleagues have extolled the virtues of various coffee-making methods over the past few days, and I can’t fault them for having elaborate rituals around caffeination. I, too, appreciate the slow-and-steady movements of a French press or the…
The connected TV platform MNTN has hired two senior executives to accelerate its push into the small and mid-sized business market, according to CEO Mark Douglas.On Monday, the company tapped former TikTok growth chief Garland Hill as its first-ever chief revenue officer and former NBCUniversal streaming head Peter Blacker as global head of premium content.The hires reflect MNTN’s conviction that CTV advertising is crossing from early adopter territory into the mainstream and that the market is mature enough to justify bringing in seasoned leaders to capture the opportunity. “Connected TV is the most significant shift in advertising in decades,” Douglas said,…
As any “Star Trek” fan will tell you, the reason why this sci-fi world has endured for so long is because it illustrates an optimistic future, with tech starring as a power for good. In fact, famed Xprize founder, author, tech investor, motivational speaker, and longevity guru Peter Diamandis has just launched a new $3.5 million Future Vision Xprize to encourage more such optimistic sci-fi worlds to come to our screens. He credits his whole fabulous career to watching “Star Trek” as a child growing up. “’Star Trek’ offered a hopeful vision of the future, right? It was humans/humanity and…
The second difference is the equal sign instead of less-than-or-equal. This means the frictional force is constant as long as the object is sliding—it doesn’t equal the applied force anymore. That means the net force isn’t zero. Push harder on the chair by running and the chair will speed up.Let’s go back to that tug-of-war. The driver on the right now has an idea: Instead of gunning his engine, he throttles down to maintain a static friction interaction with the rails. Slow and steady. The guy on the left floors it—and what happens? His wheels spin and he gets a…
From Kate Moss’s 90s billboards to Bad Bunny in cotton stretch briefs, Calvin Klein (CK)’s advertising hall of fame is defined by two things: big stars and provocative imagery.Its Spring 2026 campaign leans back on this time-tested formula, showing a day in the life of Dakota Johnson.The campaign, directed and photographed by Gordon von Steiner, opens with the actress at home wearing CK underwear, discussing a script with an off-camera guest. Dakota is then shown playing pool topless while wearing a CK thong, lounging by the pool, covering her breasts with items like pomegranates and milk jugs, and perched on…
Fitness wearable maker Whoop is launching a new panel focused on women’s health through its Whoop Labs blood testing service. The company is also adding a new feature to its app that surfaces information about hormonal changes during menstrual cycles. The startup said the panel includes 11 blood biomarkers that can give insights into aspects such as cycle regulation and hormonal transitions: Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH), Progesterone, Prolactin, and Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies (TPOAb), Free T4, Free T3, Leptin, Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin), Folate, Magnesium, and Phosphate (as Phosphorus). The company claims measuring these biomarkers will help users understand more about perimenopause, thyroid…
The Wiim Amp Ultra aims to fix this issue, catering to those after a bit more than just worry-free performance at a very nice price. On that front it proved an immediate success, providing noticeably cleaner, more expansive stereo sound than the Amp Pro I’ve had at the center of my living room for the past few months. The sound isn’t perfect, and it leaves out some features I’d expect at this price (like AirPlay and a dedicated phono input), but it easily won my heart anyway. The Wiim Amp Ultra showed off a lovely mix of performance, design, and…
In this episode of Brave Commerce, Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter sit down with Dipesh Patel, senior director of digital transformation & ecommerce for global OTC at Teva Pharmaceuticals, to discuss what it takes to drive transformation in a category where trust, accuracy, and regulation shape the pace of change. Dipesh shares how his background in mathematics and early experience in retail influence his approach to problem-solving, ambiguity, and digital transformation.They also explore Dipesh’s move from Unilever to Teva, including the difference between operating in a mature consumer goods environment versus building capabilities in OTC. The conversation also dives into AI’s role…
Die-hard Chevrolet Bolt fans rejoiced when General Motors announced it was bringing a refreshed version of the EV subcompact back into production. The GM brand gave a lot of credit to those owners — and to Bolt supporters within General Motors — for the car’s revival. But fandom alone doesn’t restart a multimillion-dollar program. The math has to pencil out in more ways than one. An examination of GM’s business and market conditions at the time it was approved hints at what compelled the automaker to bring the Bolt back. It started with GM’s factory capacity. The U.S. automaker had…
Uzbekistan fintech Uzum has reached a $2.3 billion valuation — about 53% higher than just seven months ago — as investors place growing bets on the country’s emerging digital economy. The valuation stems from a $131.5 million investment led by sovereign wealth funds from Oman, with participation from existing investors including Tencent, VR Capital, and FinSight Ventures. This round comprises $81.5 million in equity and $50 million in convertible financing tied to Uzum’s next funding round, as the startup targets a potential $250 million to $300 million pre-IPO raise in the second half of 2026 or early 2027. In August,…
Apple is now manufacturing 25% of its iPhones in India — hitting a milestone JPMorgan predicted back in 2022 — as part of its long-term plan to reduce its reliance on China, Bloomberg reported. Last year, India accounted for 55 million iPhones of the roughly 220 million to 230 million produced worldwide, Bloomberg’s report said. Apple has also moved quickly to deepen that commitment: it began making the entire iPhone 17 lineup in India ahead of last September’s launch, and Apple CEO Tim Cook said the majority of U.S. demand is now fulfilled by India-made iPhones. That shift accelerated in…
AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. AMI is working on world models, or AI that learns from reality, not just from language. This category has fewer players than generative AI, but maybe not for long. “My prediction is that ‘world models’ will be the next buzzword,” AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun told TechCrunch. “In six months, every company will call itself a world model to raise funding.” LeBrun said this with a smile because he thinks AMI Labs is fundamentally…