Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas

Figma has introduced its own AI agent embedded directly into its collaborative design canvas, allowing users to generate new designs, edit existing ones, and automate repetitive tasks through natural language prompts. Multiple agents can run simultaneously on the same canvas, and the company says the underlying models are fine-tuned specifically for design contexts. The move […]

Alexa Plus, Amazon's upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on "virtually any topic," according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk about, allowing you to steer the conversation and adjust its length before it starts generating the episode. Some "Alexa Podcast" examples shared by Amazon have two AI-generated hosts talking about the history of the Roman Empire, new music, and expectations for the World Cup. Amazon says you can also ask Alexa Plus to generate audio lessons about the Apollo missions, o … Read the full story at The Verge.

This post was originally published on The Nuanced Perspective and is being reposted here with the authors’ permission. Agent skills are everywhere right now. Atlassian built them into Rovo so agents can automatically triage Jira tickets, draft Confluence pages, and route service requests without anyone typing a prompt. Canva and Figma use them so Claude […]

Apple is preparing a significant overhaul of Siri for its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, with privacy positioned as its primary differentiator in an increasingly crowded AI assistant market, according to reports from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The revamp will include Apple’s first standalone Siri app, powered by Google Gemini, offering a conversational chatbot experience comparable […]

Insider Brief Amazon is rolling out a new AI-powered shopping assistant called Alexa for Shopping that combines conversational AI, personalized recommendations and automation tools across the company’s shopping app, website and Echo devices. According to Amazon, the system merges Amazon’s Alexa+ assistant with Rufus, the company’s AI shopping tool, which Amazon said helped more than […]

Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.

Alexa for Shopping is Amazon’s new AI-powered shopping assistant. | Image: Amazon Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company's shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you'll be talking to Alexa for Shopping, the company's new shopping assistant, powered by Alexa Plus. So, while a search for "toilet paper" will still return the expected list of brands, typing "What's a good skincare routine for men" or "When did I last order AA batteries" will now trigger an answer from Alexa. Alexa for Shopping is replacing Amazon's Rufus AI shopping assistant and, unlike Rufus, it will be front and center in the Amazon app and on the … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.