Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform
Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform

  Airbnb started as a way to book someone else’s spare room. It is now trying to become the app you never leave during a trip. The company’s summer 2026 release adds boutique hotels, car rentals, luggage storage, and thousands of new experiences to the…

LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again
LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again

If your LinkedIn feed has felt like it was written by one person with 10 million accounts, you are not imagining things. The platform has become a petri dish for AI-generated posts that say nothing while sounding vaguely inspirational. Now LinkedIn say…

Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app

Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas
Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas

Summary: Figma is launching its own AI agent that operates directly on the collaborative design canvas, letting users generate, edit, and iterate on designs through natural language prompts. The move follows partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI and t…

This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins
This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched th…

Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas

Figma’s new AI assistant will be first available on Figma Design

Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year
Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year

I am dying to know how much money Plex is about to make the next six weeks charging people to stream their own video from their own homes. Today, it’s giving every prospective customer until July 1st to lock in a lifetime subscription at today’s rates – before it triples the price to $750. Plex […]

Discord now encrypts every voice and video call by default, and not even it can listen in
Discord now encrypts every voice and video call by default, and not even it can listen in

Discord has flipped the switch on end-to-end encryption for every voice and video call on its platform, a move that means not even the company itself can access what its hundreds of millions of users say on calls. Mark Smith, Discord’s VP of core techn…

Google gives Gemini a morning routine, a new look, and an AI agent that never sleeps
Google gives Gemini a morning routine, a new look, and an AI agent that never sleeps

Google used the opening keynote of I/O 2026 to unveil a wave of updates to its Gemini app, headlined by a feature called Daily Brief, a personalised morning digest that pulls from a user’s inbox, calendar, and task list to deliver a prioritised overvie…