Canva Unveils AI App Builder, Spreadsheets, and Image Tools in Major Expansion

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• OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats

• Canva Unveils AI App Builder, Spreadsheets, and Image Tools in Major Expansion

• Powering AI: Data Centers May Match Japan’s Energy Use by 2030

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• 🧰 Today’s AI Toolbox Pick

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Canva Unveils AI App Builder, Spreadsheets, and Image Tools in Major Expansion

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: Canva is expanding beyond design with a powerful slate of AI tools, including an assistant that can generate images, code apps, and handle spreadsheets—underscoring its ambition to become a full-stack creative and productivity platform.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• AI Assistant: The new Canva AI can generate images, write copy, suggest design ideas, and create documents on command.

• Prompt-to-App with Canva Code: Users can now build mini-apps like interactive maps or calculators via prompts, powered in part by a partnership with Anthropic.

• Advanced Editing Tools: Canva's photo editor gains AI-driven features like object modification and lighting-aware background generation—targeting rivals like Adobe and Apple-owned Pixelmator.

• Spreadsheet Integration: The launch of Canva Sheets adds spreadsheet functionality to Canva’s suite, reinforcing its appeal to enterprise users.

• Enterprise Strategy: These updates build on Canva’s push into business use cases, following last year’s launch of an enterprise-focused tier with SSO and admin controls.

💡 Why This Stands Out: Canva's AI overhaul signals a clear shift from design tool to multipurpose productivity suite. By embedding generative capabilities across creative, technical, and enterprise domains, it's positioning itself as a formidable challenger to Adobe and Google Workspace alike. As AI becomes table stakes, will design-first platforms like Canva redefine the productivity stack?

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OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s memory capabilities, enabling the chatbot to remember user-specific details across conversations. This update is designed to make interactions more personal, efficient, and context-aware—especially for Pro and Plus subscribers.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• ChatGPT’s new “reference saved memories” feature rolls out to Pro and Plus users (excluding the U.K., EU, and select European countries).

• It allows ChatGPT to recall user-shared details, improving continuity in text, voice, and image interactions.

• Users can view, manage, or delete memories—or disable the feature entirely via settings.

• Temporary Chats offer a privacy-focused option, excluding conversation data from memory.

• Memory is on by default for users who previously enabled the earlier version of the feature.

💡 Why This Stands Out: The move signals OpenAI’s push toward more adaptive, assistant-like AI—where memory enhances utility without constant re-explaining. As AI systems evolve from tools to digital collaborators, user data stewardship becomes a central tension. Will richer personalization outweigh growing privacy concerns?

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Powering AI: Data Centers May Match Japan’s Energy Use by 2030

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: The International Energy Agency (IEA) warns that AI’s surging energy demands—primarily from data centers—could strain global power systems by 2030, potentially undermining climate goals unless regulators step in.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• AI data centers could consume as much electricity by 2030 as Japan does today, with demand more than doubling.

• High-performance AI facilities may use up to 20× more energy than standard data centers.

• While AI can enhance energy efficiency and renewable grid design, unchecked growth may worsen fossil fuel reliance.

• The IEA calls for proactive regulation to balance AI’s potential benefits against its environmental cost.

• Critics argue the IEA underestimates the scale of the risk, urging more aggressive safeguards.

💡 Why This Stands Out: AI’s energy footprint is no longer a back-end technical concern—it’s a frontline sustainability issue. As governments race to harness AI’s promise, the gap between potential efficiency gains and real-world energy costs is widening. The question isn’t just how we build AI systems, but how sustainably we can scale them.

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🧰 Today’s AI Toolbox Pick

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