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Several technology companies, including Amazon, Angi, Block, Canva and Squarespace, have announced job cuts in November. The reductions add to a string of layoffs across the tech sector throughout the year, affecting workers shortly before the holiday season.
Canva co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins told staff the company is cutting 1,271 jobs, about 22 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring she calls 'refounding' Canva. The changes merge the Product, Growth, and Platform teams into a single product organization, shift more roles to Sydney, and will require hybrid employees to work from an office 2-3 days a week starting in January. Departing staff will receive at least six months' salary, a year of healthcare coverage, and career support.
Canva released Affinity for iPad, a single touch-optimized app combining vector, photo, and layout editing tools previously split across separate Affinity apps on desktop. The app is free for individual users, mirroring the desktop version that Canva says has surpassed seven million sign-ups since its launch a year ago.
Canva has released Affinity for iPad, a free app bringing the company's vector graphics, photo editing, illustration, and page layout tools to Apple's tablet with support for Apple Pencil Pro gestures like tilt, squeeze and hover. The app includes a new Sketch Studio for turning freehand drawings into vector shapes and integrates Canva's AI Studio, with features such as Generative Expand, motion blur, noise reduction, and resolution scaling.
Canva has announced it built its own vision-language AI model aimed at producing design work, rather than relying solely on third-party generative AI systems. The company is positioning the model as a way to address the recognizable, low-quality aesthetic commonly associated with AI-generated graphics, often called 'AI slop.'
Canva has released Canva Craft, its first proprietary AI image generation model, now available worldwide to all users. The company says the model uses a two-stage architecture that plans a design's layout before generating it, and was trained on Canva's own library, licensed data, and opted-in user data. Canva's head of AI research, Stefano Corazza, said the model mimics how human designers structure a composition.
Canva has introduced Craft, its first dedicated AI image generation tool, and made it available to both free and paid account holders. The feature adds to Canva's existing suite of design tools, templates, and editing options within its browser-based platform.
Canva has released Canva Craft, its first self-developed image generation model, built by its research team with contributions from Leonardo.ai researchers acquired in 2024. The model generates images up to 2K resolution in 30 aspect ratios using a two-stage process that first plans layout and text placement, then renders the image, and it is trained on Canva's design templates rather than photographs.
Canva unveiled Canva Craft, its first in-house AI image model, which plans a design before rendering it to improve accuracy on text and object placement. The model supports resolutions up to 2K and over 30 aspect ratios, and was trained on millions of templates from Canva's content library. It currently ranks fourth on the Design Arena leaderboard, behind three OpenAI models.
Mixbook, a photo card and photo book printing service, is currently running several discount offers ahead of the 2026 holiday season. The promotions are running at the same time, meaning customers can compare codes to find the best available deal. The writer previously tested multiple holiday card platforms and selected Mixbook as a favorite based on design variety, editing tools and print quality.
Doory is a browser-based design tool offering templates and a blank-canvas editor for posters, slides, resumes, business cards and more, with exports to PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, MP4 and GIF. It requires no account, is free to use, and can be self-hosted via a single docker compose command that runs the app, API, database and live collaboration.
Megi Endeladze, co-owner of Penny's Coffee Shop in Buffalo, New York, used ChatGPT to design a printed menu poster after the barista who usually hand-drew chalkboard signs moved away. She spent about $350 on printing and framing, then posted the result to Instagram, where customers quickly criticized the shop for relying on AI-generated artwork instead of human design.