Products & Apps

Linkdaze combines shared calendars, chores, meal planning and shopping lists on a touchscreen designed for the whole household. Its main features do not require a recurring subscription.

LinkedIn says more than one million people have used its “Seems like AI slop” feedback option since it launched in July. The company also claims that posts it classifies as AI slop are receiving 40% fewer views than they did a few weeks earlier.

OpenAI has introduced an Apple Messages plug-in that lets ChatGPT search, analyze, edit, draft, and send texts after user authorization. The integration promises a smoother messaging workflow, but also raises questions about device permissions, storage, and automated sending.

Meta is rolling out Pocket, an experimental app that lets users create and share interactive games with AI prompts. The app follows a quiet test in Brazil and builds on the team behind Gizmo.

OpenAI’s first hardware project with former Apple design chief Jony Ive is reportedly a display-free, battery-powered smart speaker. The device is said to be doughnut-shaped, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and aimed at voice-first AI interaction.

Sam Altman’s suggestion that parents use ChatGPT Work to generate a school-run podcast drew swift mockery online. The backlash highlights how sensitive AI becomes when it moves from productivity into family life.

Snapchat is changing Spotlight recommendations so that only videos made by real people are eligible for promotion and rewards. The company is not banning AI outright, but it is drawing a line between AI-assisted creation and fully synthetic content.

Apple is considering letting heavy Siri AI users buy additional compute through iCloud+, according to comments from Tim Cook cited by TechCrunch. The plan is not final, but it points to a broader shift in how consumer AI assistants may be priced.

Tim Cook suggested that Apple may let users buy higher usage levels for Apple Intelligence and the upcoming Siri AI through iCloud Plus. The move would tie Apple’s AI ambitions more directly to its subscription business.

LinkedIn is giving users a direct way to flag posts that feel inauthentic or overly AI-generated, while also changing how its systems rank low-quality content.

LinkedIn is rolling out a new way for users to flag posts that look like low-quality AI-generated content. It is also replacing its AI post-writing feature with a more limited proofreading tool.

Microsoft says it is bringing Copilot’s chat, coding, collaboration, and agentic capabilities into one broader app experience this year. The move signals a shift from AI as a feature layer to AI as a central work hub.

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to all logged-in U.S. users over 18 across its free and paid plans. The feature can use connected health apps and medical records, but the company continues to stress that it is not a medical diagnosis tool.

Google says Gemini now has more than 950 million monthly users, putting the AI assistant close to becoming another billion-user product. The milestone highlights how distribution, product integration, and agent-like features are reshaping the AI assistant race.

Kimi has suspended new consumer subscriptions after a rapid increase in user requests pushed its compute cluster close to capacity. The company also plans to separate Kimi’s main product benefits from Kimi Code benefits for future users.

A small Zoom workaround — renaming yourself to say you do not consent to recording — captures a much larger anxiety around AI note-taking. As transcription tools become routine, the default rules of meetings, casual chats, and even dates are being rewritten.

Roblox is launching Build, an AI-powered mobile feature that turns a short text prompt into a basic, editable game. The move lowers the barrier to creation while raising familiar questions about quality, discovery, and competition on user-generated platforms.

Google is bringing Gemini Omni and personal avatars to Google Vids, making it possible to generate, edit and appear in videos through natural-language prompts and lightweight personal inputs.

Google is turning AI Mode in Search into a more action-oriented assistant by letting users connect services such as Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music directly inside the search experience.

Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions by letting users connect and interact with selected apps. The first supported services include Instacart, Canva, and YouTube.