TechCrunch Daily: October 30, 2025
Welcome back to TechCrunch Daily! Today, creative suite company Canva launches a design model and adds new AI features to its platform. And Bevel's AI health companion helps you make sense of your health metrics.
Finally, Threads introduces new tools that will give users more control over their conversations on the platform.
Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform
Canva is launching new features like Forms and email design, and it makes Affinity free for all users. Read More
Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion
Bevel's AI health companion unifies data from wearables and daily habits across sleep, fitness, and nutrition into personalized insights. Read More
Threads now lets you approve and filter your replies
While Threads already offers tools that let you limit replies to people you follow, your followers, or people you mention, the new feature allows you to keep your replies open to all without the negative consequences of having discussions derailed. Read More
A huge step forward for the design tech ecosystem! Canva’s move into proprietary AI design models shows how creativity and automation can truly blend.
This move by Canva is really interesting from an engineering standpoint — launching a proprietary foundational model that understands design layers and formats (not just flat images) changes the workflow significantly. It signals that design systems are becoming more modular, editable and data-rich, which matters a lot in large-scale creative operations.