Topic: user growth
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Canva Hits $4B Revenue Boosted by AI Traffic Surge
Canva achieved $4 billion in annual recurring revenue in 2025, driven by a 20% increase in monthly active users and the strategic integration of AI tools that attracted new users and enterprise customers. The company's business-to-business segment grew by 100% to $500 million, and it is expanding...
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Spotify Hits 751M Users, Boosted by Wrapped & Free Features
Spotify achieved record user growth, reaching 751 million monthly active users, largely driven by its viral Wrapped campaign and enhancements to its free, ad-supported tier. The company reported strong financial results, with revenue increasing to €4.53 billion and a record gross margin of 33.1%,...
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Epic Games Store Grows, But Game Sales Lag
The Epic Games Store's user base grew dramatically from 108 million to 295 million accounts between 2019 and 2024, but revenue from third-party game sales increased by only 1.6%, as its strategy of weekly free game giveaways trained many users to claim free titles without making purchases. The pl...
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Lovable AI Nears 8 Million Users, Targets Corporate Market
Lovable has experienced explosive growth, nearing 8 million users and generating 100,000 new products daily, backed by $228 million in funding and a valuation of up to $1.8 billion. Despite a 40% traffic drop in the "vibe coding" sector, the platform maintains strong user retention and over 100% ...
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Meta AI's 'Vibes' Video Feed Sparks User Surge
Meta AI's mobile app experienced a dramatic surge in daily active users, jumping from 775,000 to 2.7 million in one month, alongside a rise in daily installs to 300,000. The introduction of the Vibes feed, which offers short-form AI-generated videos, is a key factor driving this growth, aligning ...
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ChatGPT Hits 800M Weekly Users, Sam Altman Reveals
OpenAI's ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly users, with rapid growth from 500 million in March to 700 million in August, driven by its integration across various sectors and infrastructure scaling. The platform now supports four million developers and processes over six billion tokens per min...
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The Surprising AI Chatbot Outpacing ChatGPT and Gemini
Microsoft Copilot is the fastest-growing AI chatbot, with a 175% growth rate from March to June, while ChatGPT remains the overall user leader. User engagement with AI tools increased on mobile by 5.3% to 73.4 million users, though desktop usage slightly declined but still holds a larger base at ...
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UpScrolled Surpasses 2.5M Users, Founder Reveals
UpScrolled has rapidly grown to over 2.5 million users, a surge its founder attributes to shifts in the social media landscape and competitor changes. The platform positions itself as an inclusive hybrid of Instagram and X, promising not to shadowban users while openly criticizing major tech gian...
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Ex-Snap Exec's AI Video Startup Higgsfield Hits $1.3B Valuation
Higgsfield has achieved a $1.3 billion valuation after raising an $80 million Series A extension, bringing its total Series A funding to $130 million. The AI video generation startup reports rapid growth, with over 15 million users and a current annual revenue run rate of $200 million, which doub...
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Strava's IPO Plans Fueled by Gen Z Fitness Boom
Strava is planning an initial public offering to raise capital for acquisitions, backed by investors like Sequoia Capital and valued at $2.2 billion. The platform has grown to 50 million monthly active users, driven by increased app downloads and a trend toward alcohol-free social activities amon...
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ChatGPT App Downloads and Daily Use Are Slowing
Global downloads and daily active users for the ChatGPT app have significantly slowed and plateaued since April, indicating the end of its explosive growth phase. User engagement in the U.S. has declined, with both time spent in the app and session frequency dropping, suggesting a shift from expe...
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Nick Turley: Making ChatGPT Your Operating System
Nick Turley aims to transform ChatGPT into an operating system-like platform, integrating third-party apps for tasks like writing, shopping, and coding to create a seamless user experience. OpenAI's strategy involves embedding apps from major services such as Expedia and Uber to turn ChatGPT into...
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Control Your Threads: Approve and Filter Replies
Meta's Threads has introduced reply approvals, allowing users to screen and authorize replies before they appear publicly, enabling open participation while maintaining conversation control. The platform has enhanced its Activity feed with new filters to isolate replies from followed users or men...
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Instagram Tests Reels-First Interface in India and South Korea
Instagram is testing a major redesign in India and South Korea, placing Reels at the forefront to prioritize video content, following a similar approach as the iPad app. The updated layout relocates the direct message icon to the center for easier access and introduces a new "Following" tab with ...
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Gamers Are Ditching Windows for Bazzite: Here's Why
Bazzite, a Linux distribution designed for gaming, is gaining popularity as an alternative to Windows, particularly following the end of support for Windows 10, with its weekly user base growing significantly. While Linux gaming is now viable for about 90% of Windows games via compatibility layer...
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Wispr Raises $25M as Voice Dictation App Gains Traction
Wispr secured $25 million in new funding, bringing its total to $81 million, with strong investor backing and notable growth, including a 40% month-over-month increase and adoption by 270 Fortune 500 companies. The company is focusing on aggressive international expansion, developing proprietary ...
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Money Fellows Hits $1.5B in Digital Savings Transactions
Money Fellows, an Egyptian fintech, has processed over $1.5 billion in digital savings transactions and attracted more than eight million users, digitizing informal savings circles into secure financial tools. The platform offers a fully integrated experience with digital savings groups, smart sa...
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5 Pivots to Profit: How a YC App Hit 300K Users & $1M ARR in 6 Months
Candle, a social app for couples and close friends, rapidly grew to 300,000 users and over $1 million in annual recurring revenue by pivoting from a failed AI shopping tool based on user feedback and a viral TikTok video. The app differentiates itself by focusing on strengthening existing relatio...
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Nano Banana's Viral AI Trends: 5 Photo Prompts to Try Now
Google's Gemini app experienced a massive user surge, driven by the viral AI image generation feature Nano Banana, which attracted over 10 million new users and generated more than 200 million images quickly due to its speed and user-friendly design. Popular uses include transforming personal pho...
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How a YC Food-Delivery App Went Viral on TikTok & Skyrocketed
BiteSight, a food-delivery app, went viral on TikTok by showcasing meal videos and social proof, resonating with Gen Z and gaining 100,000+ new users overnight. The app's success stemmed from its video-first design and peer recommendations, addressing the lack of discovery in traditional delivery...
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Google Gemini Soars as Nano Banana 3D Figurines Go Viral
Google Gemini's Nano Banana image editor has driven significant growth, allowing users to creatively transform photos into items like 3D figurines directly in the app. The tool's release led to 23 million new users in two weeks and over 500 million image edits, propelling Gemini to top app store ...
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Pinterest Searches Surpass ChatGPT Despite Earnings Miss
Pinterest's search volume is a key strength, with 80 billion monthly searches exceeding ChatGPT's and over half being commercially oriented, positioning it as a major search destination for purchase planning. Despite strong user growth, Pinterest missed quarterly revenue and earnings forecasts du...
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Reddit Bets on AI Search as Its Next Big Opportunity
Reddit is strategically pivoting toward AI-powered search as a major growth engine, leveraging its community-driven content to provide nuanced answers for subjective queries that traditional search engines struggle with. User engagement with its AI feature, Reddit Answers, has seen explosive grow...
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Google's AI Demand Forces 6-Month Capacity Doubling
Google must double its AI serving capacity every six months to meet demand, aiming for a thousandfold computational increase within four to five years while controlling costs and energy use. The surge in AI demand may stem from both user interest and Google's strategic integration of AI into prod...
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OpenAI Launches Web Browser to Challenge Google
OpenAI has launched Atlas, a new AI-driven web browser that integrates with ChatGPT and moves away from traditional browsing to offer a conversational experience, aiming to monetize AI investments and compete with giants like Google Chrome. The browser is initially available on MacOS with a paid ...
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Facebook Tests an AI Dating Assistant
Facebook Dating is launching an AI assistant to help users find more compatible matches by specifying partner criteria or improving their profiles, aiming for personalized suggestions over generic ones. The platform is introducing a weekly "surprise match" feature called Meet Cute to reduce swipe...
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Google Gemini Tops Free iPhone App Charts
Google's Gemini app for iPhone became the top free app in the US, driven by the popularity of its Nano Banana image editing feature. The app gained 23 million new users in two weeks, with the Nano Banana tool used to edit over 500 million images due to its creative and consistent editing capabili...
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Discover Music Faster with Spotify's New Smart Filters
Spotify has introduced smart filters for Premium subscribers, enabling music sorting by mood, activity, or genre, and enhancing discovery of playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts. The update is part of Spotify's broader personalization efforts, including recent AI-powered playlist creation and mana...
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a16z Report: Google and Grok Close Gap on ChatGPT in AI Race
Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok are making significant progress in challenging ChatGPT's dominance, with Gemini ranking second in both web and mobile usage. The competitive AI landscape includes consistent top performers like ChatGPT and Perplexity, alongside growing Chinese-developed tools such a...
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Duolingo's AI Shift Sparks Backlash - But Did It Matter?
Duolingo's AI-first strategy drove strong financial performance, with shares rising nearly 30% after better-than-expected earnings and projected revenue surpassing $1 billion this year. The company expanded its language courses to 148 programs using AI, enabling rapid scaling that would have take...
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Version Control Platform Diversion Secures $12M Funding for Creatives
Diversion, a version control platform for game developers, raised $12 million in funding, including a $4.5 million seed+ round led by Konvoy, to streamline collaboration for large-scale creative projects. The funding will support team expansion and product improvements, focusing on AAA studios an...
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OpenAI Reports Surge in Child Exploitation Content
OpenAI reported an 80-fold increase in child exploitation material incidents to authorities in early 2025, attributing the rise to improved detection systems and greater platform usage, not necessarily a surge in crime. The company submitted over 75,000 reports for the first half of 2025, a drama...
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Aspora: Sequoia-Backed Fintech for Indian Diaspora Bill Payments
Aspora introduces a bill payment feature for NRIs to easily and transparently settle utility bills and mobile recharges for family in India, addressing previous cumbersome and costly methods. The platform integrates with India's Bharat Bill Payment System via Yes Bank, allowing direct payments to...
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Benchmark Leads $17M Series A in Crypto Trading App Fomo
Fomo secured a $17 million Series A led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $19 million, after founders used a targeted strategy to attract 140 angel investors from a curated list of 200. The platform aims to offer seamless access to millions of crypto assets across any blockchain, incorp...
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Mozilla's CEO Bets Big on AI-Powered Firefox
Mozilla faces a dual challenge of balancing its nonprofit mission with commercial realities, a tension heightened by the rise of generative AI and reliance on a Google search deal for revenue. Under new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, Mozilla's strategy centers on Firefox, focusing on integrating a neut...
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Sumble Raises $38.5M to Bring AI Context to Sales Intelligence
Sumble addresses a gap in sales intelligence by using AI to provide meaningful context from diverse online sources, revealing companies' internal drivers and operations. The startup, founded by Kaggle creators, has gained rapid traction with major enterprise clients and a 550% revenue increase, l...
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Claude Code Now Available on the Web
Anthropic has launched a web version of Claude Code AI, accessible to Pro and Max subscribers, enabling developers to manage multiple AI coding agents directly from their browser. Claude Code's success, with a tenfold user increase and over $500 million in annualized revenue, is attributed to its...
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OpenAI and Nvidia's $100B AI Plan Needs Power of 10 Nuclear Reactors
OpenAI and Nvidia have formed a partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems, backed by up to $100 billion, to power OpenAI's future AI development, with the first phase operational in late 2026. The 10 gigawatts of compute power, equivalent to the output of 10 nuclear plants, will serve ...
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Saudi's Gathern Raises $72M, Eyes IPO at $266M Valuation
Gathern, Saudi Arabia's leading vacation rental platform, has raised $72 million in Series B funding, valuing the company at over $266 million and making it the Middle East's most valuable woman-led startup. The funding will support preparations for an IPO on the Tadawul stock exchange and drive ...
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OpenAI Tests Ads in Free ChatGPT and Plus Versions
OpenAI is testing contextual ads in ChatGPT for select free and Go users in the U.S., while excluding all paid subscription tiers and conversations on sensitive topics like health or politics. The ads are targeted based on conversation topics and user history, but advertisers do not access person...
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MrBeast's Company Acquires Gen Z Fintech App Step
YouTube creator MrBeast, through Beast Industries, has acquired the teen-focused banking app Step, merging his entertainment influence with financial tools for young adults. The acquisition aligns with MrBeast's personal mission to provide financial education he lacked and expands his business em...
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ChatGPT to Begin Testing Ads, Report Says
OpenAI is testing clearly labeled advertisements within ChatGPT for free and lower-tier users, aiming to diversify its revenue while maintaining user privacy from advertisers. The company expects advertising to account for less than half of its long-term revenue, following industry speculation hi...
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OpenAI Reports Sharp Rise in Child Exploitation Content
OpenAI reported an 80-fold increase in child exploitation material incidents to the NCMEC in early 2025 compared to 2024, highlighting the moderation challenges of scaling platforms. The surge in reports is attributed to improved detection systems, new content features like image uploads, and use...
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O Gold Wins Best Shariah Gold Investment App at Global Takaful Awards 2025
O Gold won the "Best Shariah Compliant Gold Investment App" award at the Global Takaful & Re-Takaful Awards 2025, recognizing its leadership in ethical FinTech innovation. The Emirati platform democratizes access to Shariah-compliant precious metal investments, allowing fractional ownership start...
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AI's Energy Future: The Download
AI's rapid growth is significantly increasing global electricity demand, largely due to surging data center energy consumption. Despite its high energy use, AI offers potential benefits like optimizing grid operations and enhancing renewable energy integration. The debate continues on whether AI'...
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Warp's New AI Coding Tools Supercharge Diff Tracking
Warp Code introduces AI coding tools that offer real-time diff tracking and a transparent workflow, making AI-assisted coding feel like collaborative pair programming. The system allows developers to see, comment on, and adjust code changes in real time, with features like manual editing and an i...
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Could Arrive Sooner Than Expected
OpenAI's GPT-6 is in development with a faster release timeline than previous models, focusing on advanced personalization and memory retention for more tailored user interactions. The company is addressing privacy concerns by considering future encryption for user data and aligning with regulato...
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Reddit’s AI Strategy Targets Google Users, Not Just Scrollers
- Reddit is focusing on attracting casual browsers and active seekers of answers, with CEO Steve Huffman emphasizing the role of Reddit Answers, an AI-powered chatbot, in providing quick, reliable information.
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Google's Command-Line Tool Now Supports Extensions
Google has expanded Gemini CLI with third-party extensions, allowing companies like Figma and Stripe to integrate their services directly into the AI environment. Unlike OpenAI's curated approach, Gemini CLI extensions can be published without Google's approval, hosted on GitHub for manual instal...
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Edit Your Instagram Stories with New Meta AI Tools
Meta has integrated AI photo and video editing tools directly into Instagram Stories, enabling users to modify content using simple text commands without needing external apps. Users can access these features by tapping the paintbrush icon in Stories, where they can enter custom prompts or choose...
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