Canva is dramatically increasing prices for some customers. Canva Teams subscribers on older pricing plans will see a 300% increase for a five-person plan, jumping from $119.99 per year to $500 per year. Users will get a 40% discount for the first 12 months before the switch takes effect. The company is pointing to its suite of AI-powered design features, including Magic Studio, to justify the price increase.
Google Photos’ AI-powered search feature is rolling out. Powered by Google’s Gemini AI model, Ask Photos lets you search your photos using natural language queries that leverage the AI’s understanding of your photos’ content and other metadata. Hypothetically, the feature could tell you what you ate the last time you were at a certain restaurant or what your child’s last birthday party theme was based on your photo library.
Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has raised over $1 billion in capital. Prior to SSI, Sutskever headed the now-dismantled Superalignment team at OpenAI, which focused on general AI safety research. Sutskever quietly departed OpenAI months after a highly publicized fallout due to a “breakdown in communications.”
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