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Adobe Firefly Unlocks Custom Models for Public Beta, Letting Creators Own Their Style
This year, Adobe Firefly turns three, and it looks very different from its public beta launch. What started as a hub for the company’s generative models has evolved into something broader: a platform that brings together both Adobe and third-party models, giving creative professionals a single place to choose the right engine for the job. […]
AWS Launches Kiro Students to Give College Developers Free Access to Its AI Coding Tool
Amazon Web Services is aiming to make AI-powered software development easier for early-stage developers. On Wednesday, it debuted Kiro Students, a new plan giving college students free one-year access to Kiro, AWS’s vibe coding tool. However, there is a catch: it comes with a 1,000 monthly credit limit and will initially be available only to […]
How GrubIQ Gives Franchise Owners a Smarter Edge in Restaurant Operations
Picture a first-time franchise owner eager to open a restaurant despite having little to no operational experience. While the franchiser may help them secure a location and finalize the paperwork, once the doors open, any meaningful guidance can be hard to find. The fact is that many owners enter the business without a clear understanding […]
ServiceNow Puts AI in the Driver’s Seat With Autonomous Workforce and EmployeeWorks
The time for piloting AI in the enterprise is over. Businesses now “need AI that gets work done.” That’s the message from ServiceNow President and Chief Product and Operating Officer Amit Zavery, who says companies are demanding measurable gains in productivity and ROI at scale. In response, ServiceNow is announcing its Autonomous Workforce—AI specialists capable […]
Glean Assistant Evolves to Give Every Employee a Proactive AI Coworker
Glean is transforming what a personal AI coworker can do in the enterprise. Less than three months after its last update, the company is rolling out what it calls a “generational step-change” to its Glean Assistant, giving employees a proactive partner that doesn’t just surface insights—it anticipates tasks, organizes work, and executes actions across the […]
Ai2 Launches AutoDiscovery to Analyze Datasets and Break Science’s Ideation Bottleneck
Scientific progress has long followed a familiar arc: form a hypothesis, design an experiment, test, and repeat. But when dealing with sprawling datasets, the bottleneck isn’t in collecting information. It’s deciding where to look. Ai2 is betting that artificial intelligence can automate that decision. The nonprofit AI lab has introduced AutoDiscovery, an open-source experimental tool […]
UserTesting Uses AI to Turn Figma Prototypes Into Live User Tests
Designers now have a new way to build user experience testing directly into their Figma workflows. UserTesting, a customer experience research platform, has released an AI-powered plugin for the popular design app that turns Figma prototypes into live user tests in minutes. Designers simply describe their prototype and the task they want users to complete, […]
Claude Code Becomes the Engine Behind ServiceNow’s Vibe Coding Agent
ServiceNow is upgrading its Build Agent, shifting the coding assistant to run by default on Anthropic’s Claude Code instead of the general-purpose Claude model. This change gives users access to a language model purpose-built for software development, better suited to handling coding tasks and application logic when building production-grade apps and agents. This move is […]
Ai2 Challenges the Status Quo in Coding Agents with SERA, an Open-Source Model Built for Specialization and Scale
Coding agents are everywhere. What was once a handful of experimental tools has become a crowded field spanning GitHub (Copilot), OpenAI (Codex), Google (Jules), Anthropic (Claude Code), AWS (Kiro), Vercel (v0), Salesforce (Agentforce Vibes), and a growing roster of startups, each promising to change how software gets written. Now, nonprofit AI lab Ai2 is entering […]
Adobe Acrobat Now Turns PDFs into Presentations, Podcasts
Adobe is doubling down on artificial intelligence in Acrobat, aiming to expand what’s possible with PDFs. Using natural language prompts, users can now turn these digital documents into entirely new formats, from presentations to podcasts. This update builds on Adobe’s broader push to modernize PDFs for the AI era. Last summer, the company introduced Acrobat […]