Meta’s AI app vaulted from No. 57 to No. 5 on the U.S. App Store on Thursday, driven by the debut of its new Muse Spark model. Market data shows an 87% jump in iOS downloads and a modest 3% rise on Android, while total installations have topped 60 million worldwide. The upgrade expands multimodal capabilities and paves the way for integration across Meta’s family of apps. Read more →

Social media platform X announced worldwide rollout of automatic post translation and a new photo‑editing suite that responds to natural‑language prompts. Both features run on the company’s Grok models from xAI. Users can toggle translation on or off per post, and on iOS they can draw, add text, blur faces or sensitive data, or ask Grok to transform images with simple commands. Android support is slated for later this year. The updates follow earlier criticism of X’s image‑generation tools, which were previously limited to paying users. Read more →

Google announced three new Maps features on Tuesday aimed at speeding up photo uploads, auto‑captioning images with its Gemini AI, and highlighting Local Guide contributions. The updates, now live on Android and slated for iOS, let users see photo suggestions, receive AI‑generated captions they can edit, and showcase points and badges on their profiles, enhancing the way contributors share and discover place information. Read more →

Google Maps has begun using its Gemini AI model to suggest captions for photos that users share on the service. The feature, now live on iOS in the U.S., automatically generates a short description of an uploaded image, which contributors can accept, edit, or discard. Google says the tool will ease the effort of adding context to the billions of pictures that power the map, and it plans to extend the capability to Android and additional languages in the coming months. Read more →