AI Assistant

Instinct has raised $250 million in a Series B, bringing total funding to $350 million and its valuation to $2.5 billion despite privacy concerns.

Meta is adding an AI assistant and a desktop version to its Edits video creation app, aiming to keep creators on Instagram amid competition from TikTok and YouTube.

Google launches a native Gemini app for macOS 15+, enabling users to interact with the AI assistant without switching browser windows.

Adobe's new Firefly AI Assistant lets users control Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator via natural language prompts.

Microsoft discloses Microsoft 365 Copilot has 15M paid seats (up 160% YoY) and GitHub Copilot reaches 4.7M paid subscribers.

Google's Gemini app reaches 750M MAUs, up 100M since Q3, as Gemini 3 model drives fastest adoption in company history.

Viral AI assistant Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) gains widespread adoption in Silicon Valley despite privacy concerns, as users let it manage daily tasks autonomously.

Google is rolling out an update for Gemini Live that introduces a floating button, allowing users to control the AI chat seamlessly while multitasking in other applications.

Anthropic has expanded access to its Claude Cowork AI assistant, previously exclusive to Max subscribers, to anyone with a $20 per month Pro subscription. The tool helps users with tasks on their local computer.