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Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star in Surprise Pivot Beyond Image Generation

Midjourney has bought Co-Star, the popular personalized astrology app — a sharp left turn for the AI image-generation company that signals ambitions well beyond visual AI.

Jul 25, 2026

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AI Industry Pushes Back Against Proposed Open-Weight Model Restrictions

Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5: Near-Fable Capability at Lower Cost and Fewer Restrictions

Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star in Surprise Pivot Beyond Image Generation

Patreon Cuts 20% of Staff — 93 Jobs — Citing AI-Driven Efficiency Gains

Congress Introduces AI Kill Switch Act Requiring Emergency Shutdown Powers

Anthropic Brings Claude Voice Mode to Opus and Sonnet, Adding Gmail, Slack, and Canva Integration

Runway's Media Router Automatically Picks the Best AI Model for Quality, Speed, or Cost

Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference Lands in Hugging Face Diffusers, Cutting VRAM Without Killing Quality

U.S. Treasury Threatens Sanctions Over Claims Moonshot AI Distilled Anthropic's Fable Model

Substack Launches AI-Detection Tool That Shows Readers How Much of a Newsletter Was AI-Written

OpenAI's Testing Sandbox Failed Due to Human Configuration Error, Enabling AI Hack

Meta's Content Seal AI Watermark Only Works on Meta's Own Images — Not the AI Flood It Faces