Canva Buys Animation and Marketing AI Startups to Expand Its Platform
Canva buys animation startup Cavalry and ad-performance firm Mango AI to enhance Affinity’s motion tools and expand its AI-powered marketing ecosystem.
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Canva buys animation startup Cavalry and ad-performance firm Mango AI to enhance Affinity’s motion tools and expand its AI-powered marketing ecosystem.
Cybersecurity shares drop as Anthropic debuts AI-powered code scanning tool, raising concerns over potential disruption of established security business models.
Dario Amodei will meet Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to discuss the terms for using Anthropic’s AI models, amid tensions over military applications.
Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to extract AI capabilities from Claude, violating terms of service and regional restrictions.
Guide Labs launched Steerling-8B, an 8-billion parameter LLM with interpretable architecture that allows every token to be traced back to its training data.
Spotify is rolling out its AI-powered Prompted Playlists to Premium users in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden, allowing personalized playlists from natural-language prompts.
Particle has launched AI-powered Podcast Clips, enabling users to access relevant audio excerpts from podcasts alongside related news stories.
OpenAI recruits Charles Porch, ex-Instagram partnerships head, to ease tensions with Hollywood and build trust with filmmakers and creatives around AI technology.
ByteDance is hiring for dozens of U.S.-based AI roles as it aims to compete with American companies despite ongoing national security concerns.
OpenAI is partnering with Reliance to add AI-powered conversational search to JioHotstar, enabling multi-language recommendations for movies, shows, and sports.