Instagram’s new Blend feature creates a custom reels feed for you and your friends
Instagram on Thursday announced that it’s rolling out Blend, a new feature that lets you create a custom, personalized reels feed for you and your friends. Blends are invite-only and can be created with a singular friend or with a group chat. The custom feeds are refreshed with new content ea
The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos
There’s a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures.
This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely “reason” through uploaded images. In practice, the models can cr
Judge rules Google illegally monopolized adtech, opening door to potential breakup
A federal judge has found that Google violated antitrust laws by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the advertising technology market, rounding out a two-year saga after the U.S. and eight states filed its initial complaints against the Alphabet-owned company.
The court wi
Mark Zuckerberg says TikTok slowed Meta’s growth
In Meta’s antitrust trial on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified that TikTok’s success was a risk to Meta’s business, saying the short-form video app was a “top priority” and a “highly urgent” competitive threat when it arrived in 2018, according
Wasp’s platform is the glue that holds web dev apps together
When Matija Šoši? started working in web development, he was surprised by how hard it was to build a full-stack production-ready web application.
One of the biggest hurdles Šoši? faced was navigating the fragmented dev tooling landscape. Coding a web application required utilizing different
Archer Aviation wants to help New Yorkers skip airport traffic with electric air taxis
New York City is one of those places in the world where you can get a dollar slice at 2 a.m. or have a burger delivered in less than 30 minutes, but you’ll still spend two hours crawling down the highway to catch a flight.
Archer Aviation wants to change that with air taxis that it envisions
Smashing, the reading curation app by Goodreads’ founder, shuts down
Building an app dedicated to helping people aggregate and read news, articles, and social media posts in one place is apparently a tough proposition these days. Smashing, an AI-powered app that lets users curate the news and posts they’d like to read, is shutting down, seemingly because of it
xAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to Grok
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
On Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that enables the bot to remember details from past conversations with a user. Now if yo
Rippling wants Revolut to reveal who paid off Deel’s alleged ‘spy’
Another highly valued startup has just been added to the mix in the ongoing legal drama between Rippling and Deel: U.K. fintech giant Revolut.
In his blockbuster affidavit that reads like it's straight out of a movie, Irish Rippling employee Keith O'Brien claimed that Deel paid him about $
OpenAI’s latest AI models have a new safeguard to prevent biorisks
OpenAI says that it deployed a new system to monitor its latest AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, for prompts related to biological and chemical threats. The system aims to prevent the models from offering advice that could instruct someone on carrying out potentially harmful attacks, according
Trump-appointed judge orders Trump admin to ‘turn the funding spigots back on’
The Trump administration has made no secret that it dislikes disbursing money authorized by Congress under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But on Tuesday, a federal judge issued an order “requiring the agencies to turn the funding spigots back on.”
Under Pres
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3B, with news expected later this week
Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported.
If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, which
Rivian’s first non-Amazon van customer is HelloFresh
"">Meal-kit company HelloFresh has added 70 all-electric Rivian vans to its fleet, the first major customer to buy the commercial EVs since the automaker ended its exclusive deal with Amazon.
The 70 all-electric commercial vans represent nearly one quarter of HelloFresh’s fleet, which has al
Apple says zero-day bugs exploited against ‘specific targeted individuals’ using iOS
Apple has released new software updates across its product line to fix two security vulnerabilities, which the company said may have been actively used to hack customers running its mobile software, iOS.
In security advisories posted on its website, Apple confirmed it fixed the two zero-day vulner