Google Maps adds agentic features for food orders, hotel bookings
Google is adding agentic features to Google Maps' Ask Maps tool, letting U.S. users order food, book hotels, and find event tickets directly from the app.
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Nikita Bier stepped down as X's head of product after a little more than a year, saying it's time to pass the torch, though he'll keep advising the company.
Reddit aims to make karma matter less for new posters
Reddit unveiled new AI moderation tools designed to reduce how much karma and account age matter for first-time posters.
Apple's Private Relay can leak your real IP address, researchers find
Researchers found that flaws in Apple's WebKit browser engine can reveal a user's real IP address even when Private Relay is turned on.
Hark previews a browser-use AI agent for everyday tasks
Hark, which raised $700 million in a Series A round in May, launched an AI agent called Handoff that navigates websites to complete tasks.
Tinder expands in-person events to 26 cities by September
Tinder plans to expand its in-person Events feature to 26 cities by September and 75 by year-end, as Match Group reported Tinder's Q2 user declines and a stock drop.
Disney+ brings TikTok fan videos into its short-form feed
Disney is partnering with TikTok to feature fan-made content about Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars in Disney+'s short-form video feed, starting with a US pilot in the coming months.
MacPaw partners with Liquid AI to build on-device inference for its app store
Ukraine-based developer MacPaw has partnered with Liquid AI to power locally hosted AI models for its assistant Eney, with plans to later offer the on-device inference stack to developers on its SetApp store.
Wrinkles turns your location into an AI-narrated audio tour
Wrinkles, a new location-based app founded by David Stemler and Ryan Hansan, has built a global base of 1.3 million points of interest across 177 countries to surface hidden local stories as users move through the world.
Bingers relaunches TV Time's social show-tracking model
Antonio Pinto, a TV Time co-founder, has launched Bingers, a TV and movie tracker with a social layer, to replace the shuttered TV Time app.
Spotify brings Merlin into its AI remix and covers project
Spotify said its licensing partner Merlin has joined Universal Music Group on the company's upcoming AI covers-and-remixes product, bringing more than 30,000 independent labels into a catalog that lets fans create AI remixes and covers with artists' consent.
Spotify tops 300 million subscribers for the first time
Spotify said Tuesday it has surpassed 300 million subscribers for the first time, reaching 777 million monthly active users in the second quarter, as quarterly revenue rose 14% year over year to €4.8 billion ($5.52 billion).
Influencers face backlash for attending OpenAI's first luxury trip
OpenAI's first-ever influencer brand trip, a weekend "Summer Club" retreat in upstate New York, has drawn online backlash from commenters who tied the luxury event to AI's environmental and defense-spending controversies.
Apple's rebuilt Siri finally works — but the moment has passed
After repeated delays, Siri AI arrived in the iOS 27 consumer beta in July, finally delivering the personal-context and broad-knowledge assistant Apple long promised, but the launch lands well after such assistants stopped feeling novel.
Outernet turns your saved social posts into real-world plans
Outernet, a new app from co-founders Danielle Egan and Athena Leong, helps users turn saved social-media posts about events and places into an organized to-do list for going outside.
WhatsApp says it is fixing issue that disabled several accounts
WhatsApp is working to restore access after several users reported their accounts were blocked and put "under review" by parent company Meta.
Wispr Flow prepares to launch a meeting notetaker
Dictation app Wispr Flow appears to be preparing a meeting notetaker, according to newly updated Terms of Service that add language about processing meeting audio, transcripts, and summaries.
Sam Altman's ChatGPT parenting pitch draws viral pushback
Sam Altman pitched ChatGPT Work as a way to script kids' morning-drive updates, but cartoonist Alex Hirsch's one-line reply went more viral than his original post.
Eight apps trade phone access for real-world movement
A wave of apps now locks distracting social and streaming apps behind step counts, workouts, or even a photo of grass, giving users a structural way to cut doomscrolling.
India's app market hits a record $345M quarter
India's mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consumer spending during the second quarter, up 35% from a year earlier, driven increasingly by AI, streaming, and productivity apps rather than gaming, according to a new Sensor Tower report.