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Adobe Express Gets Generative AI for Flashy Fliers, Social Videos

The company’s all-purpose creation app gets new video editing abilities alongside AI-powered imagery and fonts. The basic version of the app is free.

Adobe has brought its Firefly tools for generative AI to its Adobe Express app for making posters, videos, fliers and other graphical material. The first two new AI tools let you add images and text effects generated from a text prompt, Adobe said Thursday.

AdobeExpress, available in free or premium versions, is what the company calls an «all-in-one content creation app.» Adobe released thefeatures in a new beta version of the web version of Adobe Express andplans to match them with an updated mobile app in two to three months,said Govind Balakrishnan, senior vice president of Adobe’s CreativeCloud subscription service.

Generative AI has captured the public imagination with the ability to produce song lyrics, essay question answers and countless other tasks. AI is trained to spot patterns in enormous sets of training data, but it can spout plausible sounding but completely wrong information. So be warned if you’re looking for tax advice or medical help.

Adobe’s generative AI tools, like a beta version of Photoshop in testing now, are arguably a more natural fit since many people using it will be looking for flights of fancy like colorful flowers or letters that look like they’re overgrown with ivy. 

The new version of Adobe Express also gets video editing abilities, potentially handy for the TikTok or Instagram Reels crowd, and the ability to import, edit, and export PDF files.

Adobe Express is free in basic form but costs $10 per month for people who want more templates, photos, videos and fonts. When the AI tools exit beta testing, they’ll come with a free level of generated images — the threshold hasn’t yet been determined — and some pricing tiers for more.

«We will obviously have to put some sort of a limit on the number of generations,» Balakrishnan said. «These are expensive.»

Expensive it may be, but it’s also potentially very interesting to the creative set that already spends a lot of time coming up with new imagery.

«We continue to view generative AI as a tailwind for Adobe,» RBC Capital Markets analyst Matthew Swanson said in a Wednesday report.

Editors’ note: CNET is using an AI engine to help create some stories. For more, see this post.

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for March 25, #1740

Here are hints and the answer for today’s Wordle for March 25, No. 1,740.

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.


Today’s Wordle puzzle begins with a letter I just never guess, but once you get that, it’s an easy one. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Read more: New Study Reveals Wordle’s Top 10 Toughest Words of 2025

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

Today’s Wordle answer has two vowels.

Wordle hint No. 3: First letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with W.

Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter

Today’s Wordle answer ends with R.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a person who is smarter than another.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is WISER.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, March 24, No. 1739, was BROOD.

Recent Wordle answers

March 20, No. 1735: OASIS

March 21, No. 1736: SLICK

March 22, No. 1737: BASIL

March 23, No. 1738: SERIF

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Pokemon Champions Release Date: When Does the New Competitive Standard Come Out?

The new Pokemon game will provide the standard battle format for the 2026 Pokemon World Championships.

Pokemon Champions, the competitive pocket monster-battling spin-off game announced during the Pokemon Day 2025 livestream, will be released on the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on April 8.

Champions is completely free to play, but it will be launched alongside an optional paid starter pack bundle. This pack includes extra in-game Pokemon storage, a special battle song and additional in-game currency to recruit Pokemon for battle.

The latest Pokemon game unifies professional-level play under a single battling format, which will be used for the 2026 Pokemon World Championships in August. While a whole host of battling mechanics from past games like Z-Moves and Terastallization haven’t been shown off in any of the promotional materials, Mega Pokemon will be available in Pokemon Champions as soon as the game is released.

We’ve known for a while that Pokemon Champions will largely use Pokemon Home for teambuilding. Pokemon Home is a subscription service that stores Pokemon in the cloud and allows them to be transferred in and out of multiple games, including Pokemon Go, Pokemon Sword and Shield, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and Pokemon Legends: Z-A.

What we didn’t know is how players without a Pokemon Home subscription would build their teams — and frankly, it looks like a bit of a mess. Free-to-play users will be limited to unlocking one new Pokemon a day from a random pool of available pocket monsters.

These Pokemon can be used for a week before they disappear from the player’s account. It’ll take six days to build a whole team, and by the time a player does so, their first party member will nearly be rotated out. What a hassle.

On the upside, scoring wins against online opponents will reward players with a currency that allows them to unlock multiple Pokemon in a single day — and even keep them permanently. Hopefully, this currency is plentiful enough that Pokemon Home doesn’t feel like a requirement to engage with competitive Pokemon battling in the future.

One of the most exciting parts of the impending release of Pokemon Champions will be seeing how the new Pokemon Legends: Z-A Mega Evolutions fare in classic turn-based Pokemon combat. Legends: Z-A launched with a real-time battle system that pared down complex parts of Pokemon battling in order to create more fluid fights. When these Mega Pokemon come to Pokemon Champions, they’ll receive new abilities that could completely change high-level play.

A recent blog post by The Pokemon Company teased some of these abilities, showing off how Mega Meganium and Mega Feraligatr now have access to harder-hitting grass- and dragon-type moves, but there are many more Mega Pokemon that could gain potentially meta-defining abilities when Pokemon Champions is released in April.

A mobile release of Pokemon Champions with cross-platform multiplayer battling is planned for late 2026, but no official release dates for iOS or Android have been announced yet.

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NASA’s Ignition Program: Skipping the Lunar Orbiter and Going Straight for a Moon Base

The new initiative includes a base on the moon, a nuclear-powered flight to Mars and a replacement for the ISS.

For the second time in as many months, NASA is flipping the script and changing its planned missions for the moon. At the end of last month, the agency pushed back its moon landing to the Artemis IV mission while vowing to complete lunar missions more quickly. This time, the agency said it’s scrapping the Lunar Gateway, a lunar orbiter scheduled to launch in 2027, in favor of building a base on the moon.

NASA formally introduced the new initiative, dubbed Ignition, during a 3-hour press conference on Tuesday. Ignition houses many plans for NASA’s immediate and long-term future, including replacing the International Space Station before it becomes unusable in 2030, and building «SR-1 Freedom,» a nuclear-powered spacecraft scheduled for launch to Mars in 2028. 

«NASA is committed to achieving the near‑impossible once again: to return to the moon before the end of President Trump’s term, build a Moon base, establish an enduring presence and do the other things needed to ensure American leadership in space,» NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement.

The new moon plan is set to happen in three phases over the next few years. Phase one would be to replace one-off missions with a «templated approach» to gain learning through experimentation. Phase two would see the construction of a «semi-habitable infrastructure» on the moon. Phase three would add permanent infrastructure to that moon base. 

NASA hasn’t set a concrete timeline for any of these objectives, but Isaacman said the «clock is running in this great-power competition,» presumably alluding to China’s goal of putting humans on the moon by 2030. During a speech with various aerospace companies, international space agencies and Congress during an event at NASA headquarters, Isaacman said the entire initiative would take seven years and cost $20 billion. 

This new plan also involves halting the construction of the Lunar Gateway station. The orbiter has been under construction for years and has been criticized for being a wasteful distraction from the real goal of putting humans back on the moon. Isaacman hinted that the orbiter will be repurposed for use on the lunar surface, which will no doubt come with its own set of challenges. 

What else is NASA working on?

Ignition came with other announcements, including that the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is ahead of schedule and under budget, the success of DART’s mission to change an asteroid’s trajectory by ramming into it, the Parker Solar probe’s continued success in studying the sun and a host of additional projects that are launching between 2026 and 2030. 

Much like when it overhauled the Artemis missions last month, NASA is continuing its mission to get things done as quickly as possible. And while the moon base and the Artemis missions are the forefront of NASA’s current plans, according to Isaacman, thousands of ideas are being worked on behind the scenes. 

«The whole point of today was not to come and give you a bunch of great PowerPoint [presentations] and sit and wait for it all to come to fruition,» Isaacman said. «This is about action right now … We want to get moving.»

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