You can now manage your finances in Cash App by chatting with an AI – Digital Trends
What’s happened? Cash App has launched a major update that introduces Moneybot, an AI-powered assistant to help you manage your money smarter. It’s part of a wider update that brings a new benefits program and expanded crypto features like finding places that accept Bitcoin payments and performing Bitcoin transactions using USD.
This is important because: For many users, finance apps stop at “here’s your balance”; they don’t help you figure out what to do next. Moneybot attempts to close that gap by acting as a smart companion rather than just a ledger, similar to how AI tools in Google Finance are evolving.
Why should I care? Moneybot does more than answer basic questions. For example, it could identify your biggest expense category and propose an automatic savings plan or investment entry point, much like the smarter guidance now appearing inside the latest trading and investment apps.
OK, what’s next? Check your Cash App to see if Moneybot is available.
Apple chief Tim Cook confirmed a few days ago that the overdue AI brain transplant for Siri — one that makes it nearly as smart as rivals such as Gemini and Copilot — will arrive next year. The company is pretty late to the AI game, one where legacy assistants have already been upgraded with next-gen smarts.
Google Assistant is now Gemini. Microsoft has left Cortana behind and entered the Copilot era. Upstarts such as ChatGPT and Claude are finding their way to mainstream products, integrating with a wide variety of apps and services — even fleshing out as browsers.
What’s happened? Whatsapp is introducing biometric-based encryption for chat backups, replacing manual passwords and long recovery keys that feels like it came from NASA. This follows WhatsApp’s previous anti-leak chat feature rollout; a privacy upgrade you should probably enable if you haven’t yet.
Previously, users had to either set a password or memorize a double-digit key to secure chat backups on Google Drive or iCloud.
What’s happened? Adobe’s experimental camera app, Project Indigo, known for its advanced computational photography tools, has now received support for the iPhone 17-series. But there’s a catch. You can’t use the selfie camera yet.
According to TheVerge, rear camera support is now live, bringing the app’s advanced imaging features to Apple’s latest devices.
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