{"id":1823,"date":"2026-07-24T19:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/midjourney-bought-the-astrology-app-co-star\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:06:58","slug":"midjourney-bought-the-astrology-app-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/midjourney-bought-the-astrology-app-co-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/STK414_AI_CHATBOT_E-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/952011\/midjourney-medical-ai-ultrasound-scan\">full-body ultrasound scans<\/a>, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup <a href=\"https:\/\/updates.midjourney.com\/midjourneys-first-acquisition\/\">announced on Thursday<\/a> that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-24\/ai-startup-midjourney-buys-astrology-app-co-star-and-is-building-its-own-apps\">earlier by <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your compatibility with friends. As noted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.costarastrology.com\/faq\">app&#8217;s FAQ page<\/a>, it combines human insight, data from NASA, and AI to deliver personalized advice for users each day. The terms of Midjourney&#8217;s deal, which reportedly closed in spring, haven&#8217;t been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Midjourney founder David Holz says Co-Star founder Banu \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/970894\/midjourney-co-star-acquisition\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}