In late April and early May 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said the language-learning app would become "AI-first" and replace contractors with artificial ...

Duolingo is set to replace existing contract workers with AI, the company revealed in a memo this week. Signaling his commitment to making Duolingo “AI-first,” co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn ...

Over the past year, the Duolingo owl, known as Duo, has transformed from an app icon to an internet main ... a creator needs to get a perfectly aesthetic Instagram feed. But over time, Planoly ...

According to Zaria Parvez, Duolingo’s senior global social media manager, the idea stemmed from the company’s routine biannual app icon updates, typically resulting in a spike in new users.

Duolingo staged its owl mascot's death for a marketing stunt — except in Japan. The campaign reflects Duolingo's non-traditional and country-specific marketing. Marketing efforts helped boost ...

At least it did until, in a masterstroke of shock marketing, Duolingo “killed” its own mascot earlier this month. The campaign, which began with a simple app icon change and rapidly escalated ...

Duolingo’s mascot, Duo the owl, is dead. Okay, Duo isn’t really dead (we think), but the language learning app committed so hard to this bit that its CEO, Luis von Ahn, read a eulogy for this ...

To mark Duo's death, Duolingo updated its social media profile pictures and app icon. Days after Duolingo announced the abrupt death of its iconic mascot, the Duo Owl, the internet has been ablaze ...

In a shocking revelation, the popular language learning app Duolingo has declared the 'cause ... brands also paid tribute to the social media icon. "Thots and prayers," wrote LGBTQ+ dating app ...

On today’s episode of completely unexpected moves in the tech world, the Duolingo owl has mysteriously died. The popular language-learning platform announced on February 11, 2025, that its icon ...

The app’s icon has also changed to the dead-looking owl, but within the app itself he appears to be alive and well. Duolingo told CNN in an email that it planned to reveal more on social media ...