Meta built a Reddit rival out of Facebook Groups

Meta’s new Forum app turns Facebook Groups into a standalone hub for questions, recommendations, and AI-powered search, giving the company a Reddit-like test built from communities it already owns.

ClickUp cuts 22 per cent of staff and introduces $1 million salary bands for those who remain
ClickUp cuts 22 per cent of staff and introduces $1 million salary bands for those who remain

ClickUp, the $4 billion productivity platform, has cut 22 per cent of its workforce. CEO Zeb Evans announced the layoffs in a post on X, framing them not as a cost-cutting exercise but as a structural bet on AI. The savings, he said, will flow back to …

GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code
GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code

GitLab has released version 19.0, its first major version bump in a year, built around a concept the company calls intelligent orchestration. The pitch is that AI coding assistants have made writing code faster, but reviews, pipelines, security scans, …

Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back
Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back

Mozilla has officially unveiled Project Nova, the largest visual overhaul of Firefox since 2020. The redesign touches tabs, icons, spacing, colour palette, and settings, with the goal of making the browser feel warmer and faster without losing its iden…

Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.

Goodbye home screen: How NEED is turning Telegram into a digital marketplace
Goodbye home screen: How NEED is turning Telegram into a digital marketplace

Nobody gets excited about downloading a new app anymore. The little ritual, tap the store, wait for the icon, set up an account, trust it with a credit card, has turned into friction most people just avoid. So they stop downloading. Instead, they gravi…

Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets

Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan