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Midjourney, best known for turning text prompts into striking images, has acquired Co-Star, the wildly popular astrology app. It's an unexpected move that signals the company is building something far broader than a generation tool — blending data-driven personality systems with creative AI in ways that will be worth watching closely.
Meanwhile, on the social web, Bluesky's AI assistant Attie is growing up. Originally a conversational tool within Bluesky, Attie now functions as an open social research platform, letting users query news, trends, and conversations across the entire AT Protocol ecosystem. It's a meaningful step toward making decentralized social data actually useful.
And in Canada, VPN provider Windscribe is pushing back on user anxiety over Bill C-twenty-two, a proposed law that would require service providers to retain user metadata. The company says flatly that its logging and privacy policies will not change — but the fact that users are asking the question at all reflects a growing unease about surveillance infrastructure creeping into everyday digital life.
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