Meta Revives Facebook Creator Studio as an AI Companion App for Creators

The original Creator Studio was shut down in 2023. Now it's back, rebuilt around an AI assistant that promises to grow your audience and reply to comments in your voice.

Sarah Williams · 26 Jun · 5 min

Figma's Config 2026 Wants to Be the One Tab You Never Close

At its annual Config conference, Figma announced coding layers, AI-generated motion graphics, and a reimagined canvas that blurs the line between design and full-stack development.

Sarah Williams · 26 Jun · 5 min

Micron's Blowout Quarter Is a Reminder That AI Infrastructure Is Still About Memory

Everyone talks about chips and models. The memory bottleneck is the part of the AI buildout that keeps getting underestimated, and Micron's latest earnings make that case hard to ignore.

Aisha Patel · 25 Jun · 8 min

The Korean memory giant wants to list on a US exchange and pull in $29.4 billion to feed AI chip demand. It's a massive bet, and the timing raises some questions.

Mark Kowalski · 25 Jun · 5 min

Big numbers are flying around digital credit markets. Before we accept the $3 trillion figure at face value, it's worth asking who's making that claim and what assumptions it rests on.

Aisha Patel · 24 Jun · 7 min

The layoff headlines are real, but new hiring data suggests engineers are holding their ground better than almost anyone else in tech.

Robert "Bob" Macintosh · 24 Jun · 4 min

Memory chips aren't glamorous, but they're suddenly one of the most watched corners of the market — and what Micron says next could tell us a lot about where AI spending actually goes from here.

Sarah Williams · 24 Jun · 4 min

A $1.5 billion raise for AI infrastructure and OpenAI's first custom silicon in the same week. If you've watched tech long enough, you know exactly where this is heading.

Mark Kowalski · 24 Jun · 6 min

MGX's monster fund is one of the biggest dedicated AI investment vehicles ever assembled. Whether it's smart money or sovereign FOMO is a genuinely open question.

Mark Kowalski · 24 Jun · 7 min

OpenAI just unveiled its first in-house AI chip, built with Broadcom. For a company that's been entirely dependent on Nvidia, this changes things.

Sarah Williams · 24 Jun · 7 min

WeChat's new AI assistant isn't really about AI. It's about ecosystem lock-in, and I've seen this movie before.

Mark Kowalski · 24 Jun · 6 min

We were handed three ZDNet TV discount roundups and asked to write a robotics story. That's not how this works.

James Chen · 23 Jun · 2 min

Meta is investing $900 million into Indian fintech Cred and handing WhatsApp's leadership to its founder. That's a lot riding on one cold email.

James Chen · 23 Jun · 3 min

SpaceX's debut bond sale attracted nearly $90 billion in demand, but the debt market's enthusiasm comes with a catch: the company is expected to burn serious cash for years.

Sarah Williams · 23 Jun · 4 min

Anthropic just dropped Claude Tag, an always-on AI presence inside Slack. The pitch is productivity. The real play is something bigger, and older.

Mark Kowalski · 23 Jun · 6 min

SoftBank's founder dismissed Elon Musk's orbital compute vision this week. The physics and economics mostly back him up, but the debate obscures what actually determines AI leadership.

Aisha Patel · 23 Jun · 7 min

Oracle's workforce dropped by 21,000 in 12 months, with the company citing AI as a factor. Bob Macintosh has seen this story before, and he's got questions.

Robert "Bob" Macintosh · 23 Jun · 3 min

Nvidia says its Rubin liquid-cooling design has 'eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage.' That's a real achievement. It's also only part of the story.

Sarah Williams · 22 Jun · 7 min

OpenAI is deploying GPT-5.5-Cyber and a new initiative called Patch the Planet to automatically find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software. The ambition is real. The execution questions are bigger.

James Chen · 22 Jun · 3 min

Amazon pulled Prime Day forward into June this year, and analysts are projecting record online spending of $26.3 billion. Whether that's confidence or desperation depends on who you ask.

Mark Kowalski · 22 Jun · 5 min

Fresh off a record-breaking public offering, SpaceX is tapping the high-grade debt market for the first time to bankroll its AI push.

James Chen · 22 Jun · 4 min

The Trump administration blocked foreign access to Anthropic's top models last week. That's worth understanding in context of what Anthropic says it's actually building toward.

Aisha Patel · 21 Jun · 8 min

Paris hosted a parade of AI heavyweights last week. Some of it was interesting. Some of it was the usual conference fog.

Robert "Bob" Macintosh · 20 Jun · 4 min