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Meta AI is rolling out inside Threads direct messages, allowing users to privately send posts, images, links, or videos to the assistant and ask follow-up questions. The feature moves AI interactions out of the public feed and into a private chat space.

Meta is rolling out a productivity-focused update to its AI chatbot, adding calendar integration, daily briefings, and mid-response steering for research tasks. The update, powered by the new Muse Spark 1.1 model, marks a reversal from Meta's earlier strategy of prioritizing entertainment over productivity.

Anthropic is testing a beta feature in Claude that tracks usage patterns and periodically prompts users to consider if they're using the chatbot too much. The feature shows usage summaries over periods from one to twelve months and includes quiet hours scheduling.

Mistral released 20+ MCP-powered connectors for Le Chat, integrating tools like Databricks, Snowflake, GitHub, Stripe, and Asana. The update includes a memory feature that saves user preferences across conversations, with one-click import from ChatGPT. All features are available on the free plan.

Google announced Ask Play, a Gemini-powered chatbot overlay for the Play Store designed for app discovery. The company is also integrating Gemini app and game recommendations across Android and web, with plans to expand to 450,000 movie and TV show recommendations later this year.

Threads is testing a feature where users can mention @meta.ai in posts to get context on trends and breaking news. The integration is currently in beta in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore.

Canva released AI 2.0 today, rolling out to the first one million users who access its homepage. The update introduces a unified conversational interface that allows users to generate and edit designs through text prompts, with the platform claiming users can create "multi-channel campaign plans" and execute them entirely through natural language descriptions.

DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai chatbot platform now includes OpenAI's GPT-5 mini for free users and GPT-5.2 for subscribers, both with reasoning capabilities. The platform continues to anonymize all conversations by default, stripping metadata before routing chats to model providers including Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and OpenAI.

Google is launching 'Ask Maps,' a new chatbot feature powered by Gemini AI within its Maps application. The tool allows users to ask complex, contextual questions beyond typical navigation, such as finding charging stations without long waits or locating lit tennis courts. The feature rolls out Thursday in the U.S. and India on iOS and Android, with desktop access coming soon.

Amazon has introduced a 'sassy' personality style for Alexa+ that includes occasional censored profanity, described as combining 'unfiltered personality' with 'razor-sharp wit, playful sarcasm and occasional censored profanity.' The feature is restricted to adult users and requires additional security checks including face scans to activate.

Meta is testing a shopping research feature within its Meta AI chatbot designed to compete with similar e-commerce tools from OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. The feature represents Meta's effort to expand AI chatbot capabilities beyond conversation into commerce-focused use cases.