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…

Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas

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

Google is rolling out its redesigned Workspace app icons
Google is rolling out its redesigned Workspace app icons

It’s not just you – the Google Workspace apps are getting a new look. The redesigned app icons, leaked last month, are now rolling out widely, as we started noticing this morning. Users with the redesigned icons will notice they now have a gradient look that fades from lighter to darker shades, rather than being […]

Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?
Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don’t have our phone – but we do have some fresh doubts about the company’s patriotic credentials. This has been a momentous […]

Audemars Piguet and Swatch made a $400 ‘pop’ pocket watch
Audemars Piguet and Swatch made a $400 ‘pop’ pocket watch

Following a series of cryptic newspaper ads and Instagram teasers that had watch fans speculating about its next collaboration, Swatch announced a new timepiece collection created with luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet. Inspired by Swatch’s iconic Pop watches from the ’80s and Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak timepieces that first debuted in 1972, the new Audemars Piguet […]

Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool

A new startup called Dessn has raised $6M to build AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases.

Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days
Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days

The Paris-based AI-native real-estate company, founded by Entrepreneurs First alumni Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, has Heartcore and Balderton co-leading the round, an unusual cap-table for a pre-seed. The technical pitch is more interesting than the h…

Airbnb co-founder taps Peter Arnell as first US chief brand architect

Arnell joins Gebbia’s National Design Studio under Trump to unify UX across 27,000 federal sites and streamline how Americans use government services.

Freepik rebrands as Magnific: a bootstrapped, profitable $230M ARR AI creative platform
Freepik rebrands as Magnific: a bootstrapped, profitable $230M ARR AI creative platform

The new name unifies what was previously fragmented across Freepik (stock assets), Magnific (AI upscaling), and several other products. One million paying subscribers. 250 enterprise customers, including BBC, Puma, and Amazon Prime Video. CEO Joaquín C…

How Arpit Grawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets
How Arpit Grawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets

Arpit Agrawal’s career has been shaped by a single, consistent focus: expanding access. For more than a decade, he has worked at the intersection of global brands and emerging markets, building distribution and retail ecosystems that connect products w…