Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App
…Mills says having more disasters in Watch Duty was always the plan, but ensuring the feature works has been a challenge—especially during busy fire seasons. “We wanted to start working on…
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Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
…s ad business continues to perform. Meta largely declined to comment on specifics for this story but pointed to previous public statements defending its job cuts and new AI-related projects, including…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…Such a move suggests this new smartphone could run Android; however, the Reuters report indicates that Transformer might have an AI interface that would “eliminate the need for traditional app stores.” Generative…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…OpenAI would supply new models to power the tool, but this was Microsoft’s turf. OpenAI spent much of 2023 and 2024 investing instead in its multimodal AI models and agents—designed…
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
…Messenger scam detection features for more users around the world, introducing warnings about potentially suspicious activity when a user is initiating a new WhatsApp device link, and testing new Facebook alerts to…
You Can Get Some of Your Nudes Removed From the Internet Under a New Law
The Take It Down Act applies broadly to a range of apps and online services, including social media and gaming platforms, according to business guidance published by the Federal Trade Commission, which…
This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts
…For instance, Manhattan psychologist Becky Kennedy has built a parenting advice business that features a chatbot named Gigi trained on her acumen and knowledge. Kennedy’s company pulled in $34 million last…
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
…and then saying, "Oh, nevermind, here's this new shiny thing." AI is not another metaverse. AI, I think, has a better business case behind it. But at the same time, to…
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
…She was making business news, and tech news, and cultural news. Recently, in the last couple weeks, months, a lot of people have also really taken note of Emily Sundberg. She has…
He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
…My wife and my new baby girl—she’s now 21 months old—we were in Sydney, and I told them, “I’m going to be very busy for the next few…