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Poke, theAI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move. The company behind the assistant,The Interaction Company of California, has beenacquiredby AI coding startup Cognition in a deal valuing the startup in the “low nine figures.” The deal will bring Poke’s interaction model and personality to Cognition’s coding assistant Devin. Meanwhile, Poke will take advantage of Cognition’s models and infrastructure to become faster and more reliable, Cognition said. What makes Poke interesting to consumers — and now, to its acquirer — is how it engages with users’ requests. Instead of functioning like a tool, Poke chats more familiarly with users, responding like a friend and even incorporating slang and humor into its interactions. That’s something that could add value to Devin’s coding agent. “You probably prefer it if you have co-workers that have personality, rather than if you have co-workers that are just robots,” explained Interaction Company co-founderMarvin von Hagen, in an interview with TechCrunch, where he also confirmed the deal’s price. “When you have co-workers that are also software engineers, they can also make a joke. And you’ll find it funny and enjoyable.” The acquisition underscores a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users will become just as valuable as the underlying models powering them. Cognition wants to make Devin feel less like software and more like a colleague. “The Interaction team has built an agent that people love: it’s proactive, it knows you, and it’s fun to talk to. That’s exactly how working with Devin should feel, and now we get to build it together,” Cognition co-founder Scott Wu wrote in a blog post. He also noted that he and Cognition co-founder Walden Yan had been angel investors in the company behind Poke. First launched in March 2026, Poke allows users to engage with its AI agent through their messaging platform of choice, whether that’s iMessage, SMS, Telegram, or, in some markets, WhatsApp. People use Poke for avariety of tasks, across categories like travel, health, finance, scheduling, and education. Von Hagen noted that productivity tasks like managing emails, reminders, and to-dos were among Poke’s most common use cases. Over the past three months, Poke users exchanged more than 100 million messages on the platform, Cognition said. But despite being used by hundreds of thousands of people, Poke had been expensive to run, making it difficult to turn a profit, von Hagen said. In June, Poke became thefirst AI agent to be approvedto run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform, which provides businesses with a standardized experience for handling their customer communications within Apple’s Messages app. Going forward, nothing will immediately change for Poke through the end of the year, we’re told. Poke plans to remain on Apple’s platform. However, next year the team will experiment with how both Poke and Devin can improve, with Poke turning to Cognition’s newest software engineering modelSWE-1.7for some tasks. Fully combining the two products has not been ruled out, either. “I think in the long term Poke can be more reliable with orchestrating all these coding [tasks]…and, at the same time, Devin could become more like Poke,” von Hagen said. “Like right now, Devin can only do one PR — pull request — at a time…I think there’s a lot of value in having Poke orchestrate different Devin sessions.” Plus, Poke could help Devin remember tasks across different sessions. “It would be good to have a persistent co-worker,” he added.
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Claude has updated its Voice Mode to support the Opus and Sonnet AI models, expanding the feature beyond its earlier reliance on Haiku. The update also enables Voice Mode to work with connected services, allowing users to complete tasks across supported apps while speaking with the chatbot. According to Anthropic's updated support page, the feature is available in beta on the web, desktop and mobile apps for all subscription plans, although some capabilities depend on the user's plan.
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OpenAI on Thursday said it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer. The new feature tapsOpenAI’s new family of voice models called ChatGPT-Live, which it launched earlier this month. OpenAI said ChatGPT Voice works with both ChatGPT Work and Codex, and can also tap computer use skills to look up websites and apps. Plus, on macOS, with Appshots, users can let the app access what’s on their screen, including alt-text. At launch, ChatGPT Voice’s smartphone version featured smoother conversations, with better interruption handling, but it was not built to take action on smartphones. Thursday’s desktop update is more capable, allowing users to dictate complex commands involving many steps, and respond when ChatGPT needs their input. In a demo video, OpenAI showed a developer asking ChatGPT to create a new thread, make a pull request, and find the root cause for a bug, with one command. ChatGPT Voice is now in the desktop app.Control your computer and direct multiple agents running in ChatGPT Work or Codex, using just your voice.It's powered by GPT-Live, so it can speak, listen, and coordinate work in the app at the same time.Rolling out globally today…pic.twitter.com/ODZWKqecCf The company said that users can utilize ChatGPT Voice in Codex from the iOS app through remote access. Anthropic has also updated itsvoice mode for Claude, which can tap the company’s Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models to complete tasks in apps like Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, and Canva.
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Midjourney, an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology appCo-Star, according toBloomberg. The deal terms were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has about 4.3 million monthly active users, is mostly used to help people determine their astrological birth charts, which they can then share with other friends on the app. Co-Star uses both AI and human writing to write horoscopes, compatibility assessments, and other advice based on a user’s astrological information. Midjourney seems to be casting a wide net when it comes its product lineup. The company seems almost synonymous with theDiscord serverwhere users can generate text and images — there is no standalone Midjourney app — yet the AI lab is also trying to build amedicalarm and spa. Why not throw an astrology app in the mix? Co-Star’s team of two dozen employees has joined Midjourney as part of the acquisition. Given the team’s experience in building consumer apps, Midjourney could perhaps finally get its own standalone app.
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Attie, Bluesky’sAI assistantthat lets you build custom social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open-ended research tool. The company this week said it’s added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that lets users ask it for information and news spreading across the broader Bluesky social network, nicknamed the Atmosphere. This includes not only Bluesky, but any app that integrates with the underlying AT Protocol. Bluesky’s user growth has slowed over the past eight months — the social network saw its user base double to 40 million last October, within just a year, but it now reportsaround 45.6 million registered accounts. So the company has been looking to develop tools and services that could allow it to grow its user base, and potentially, monetize it. Attie,launched in March, is a separate product by Bluesky that lets users design their own algorithm, create custom feeds and, one day, possibly, vibe code their own apps. While the AI assistant is free for the time being, the company has toyed with the idea of charging for the service. Quests adds new capabilities to Attie, allowing users to ask it open-ended questions to research what’s happening on this part of the open social web. For instance, you could ask Attie to pull information about trending topics, or help you identify the most influential accounts in a particular field or location, the company explained. “Attie’s AI is a tool that helps you make sense of the internet, helping you fight back against the proliferation of misinformation and noise by giving you the tools to find the truth yourself,” wrote Bluesky’s chief innovation officer Jay Graber, whostepped down in March from her role as CEO of the company. (She’s since beenreplacedby Toni Schneider, the former founding CEO of Automattic.) “Our bet is that tools that help people make sense of the world will prove to be more useful than those that fill it with confusion,” Graber wrote. “We want Attie to reduce the barrier to entry and expertise required to learn how to use the AT Protocol, and to put the tools for customizing your experience in the hands of anyone who wants them.” Graber noted Attie is being redesigned to add accessibility features and a new logo, and more changes are coming in the months ahead. For now, the new Attie experience is in beta, and users will be invited in from awaitlistover the coming weeks. While many Bluesky users tend to dislike AI for economic, political and environmental reasons, the company has had to balance its community’s leanings with the need to generate revenue to help itself and the AT Protocol development it leads remain afloat. In March, Bluesky said it had raised$100 million in fundingin a round that closed in 2025. That gives it runway to experiment with ideas like Attie and how AI can play a role in the Atmosphere, as well as with other services, like a premium subscription or tools for power users.
The directive reportedly asks GitHub to act against the repositories hosting the application’s source code.
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AI-powered enterprise learning platforms, such as Workday’s, are replacing legacy LMSs with personalised, skills-driven experiences.
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Forward deployed engineers are emerging as Indian IT's latest strategic bet, as the industry vows to stay relevant in the AI value chain.
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OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health in January as a dedicated workspace for users, where they can ask health-related questions to the AI-powered chatbot. The ChatGPT Health functionality has been in early access since its unveiling, with limited users onboarded through a waitlist. Now, the Sam Altman-led AI giant has announced that ChatGPT Health is now generally available to all users in the US. The company says that users will have to connect their health apps, like Apple Health, and provide their medical records to help the AI agent generate personalised responses. OpenAI also highlighted that ChatGPT users have started asking more health-related questions every week.
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Genpact claims its Transaction Monitoring Analyst can reduce handling time for anti-money laundering alert investigations by up to 80%.
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The AI data centre, planned at Odisha’s Sovereign AI Park, will combine HCLTech’s infrastructure with Sarvam’s foundation models.
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Databricks will deepen its commitment to Azure, running its own core business operations and analytics on Azure Databricks.
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