Meta Slows Down Costly AI Hiring Surge
Meta has temporarily paused hiring for its new artificial intelligence division, the company confirmed Thursday. The halt follows months of aggressive recruitment efforts that saw the company spend heavily to…
Meta to Expand Energy Supply With 100MW of U.S. Solar
Meta has entered into a $100 million agreement with solar developer Silicon Ranch to build a 100-megawatt solar farm in South Carolina. The project will power Meta’s upcoming $800 million…
Google Photos Now Lets You Edit With Voice Commands
At Wednesday’s Made by Google event, the company unveiled new features in Google Photos that let users edit images simply by asking. Launching first on Pixel 10 devices in the…
Thousands of Grok Conversations Now Indexed on Google
Hundreds of thousands of user chats with Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok are currently visible through Google Search, Forbes reported. When a Grok user clicks the “share” button, the platform…
Meta Restructures Its AI Team Yet Again
Meta has officially reorganized its artificial intelligence division following earlier reports of a major shake-up. The changes were confirmed this week in an internal memo, days after speculation began. The…
Spotify Adds Custom Playlist Transitions Feature
Spotify is introducing a feature that lets subscribers create more polished and personalized playlists. The custom transitions option allows listeners to automatically add transitions between tracks or fine-tune them using…
Meta Expands AI Translations Worldwide for Creators, Starting With English and Spanish
Meta announced on Tuesday that it is launching an AI-powered voice translation feature across Facebook and Instagram worldwide. The tool, available in every market where Meta AI is supported, lets…
Android Now Lets You Delete Sent Texts
Everyone has experienced that moment of regret after sending a text — whether it went to the wrong person or just shouldn’t have been sent at all. Now, Android users…
X’s declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue
Elon Musk’s X is seeing sharp declines on Android devices while maintaining growth on iOS. According to new figures from Appfigures, global downloads of X from Google Play in July…
Free VPNs on Google Play Accused of ‘Leeching’ From Windscribe
A free app called JET VPN was discovered hijacking access to VPN servers from Windscribe to run its own network. Windscribe, a Canadian VPN provider, flagged the incident as an…
Tesla’s Optimus Rival Unitree Stands Out at China’s ‘World Humanoid Robot Games’
The first World Humanoid Robot Games wrapped up in Beijing on Sunday after a three-day competition that drew 280 teams from 16 countries, including the United States. Many teams used…
Apple Issues Emergency Patch for Zero-Day Flaw on iPhones and Macs
Apple has rolled out an emergency software update to address a newly discovered security flaw that targets iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-43300, allows attackers to exploit…
Everything Google Announced: Pixel 10, Pixel Watch 4, Pixel Buds 2a, and More
Google moved away from its typical slide-heavy California stage presentation this year. At its Made by Google showcase in New York, the company leaned into a late-night variety show vibe.…
Texas Attorney General Accuses Meta, Character.AI of Misleading Kids on Mental Health
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health…
Hank Green’s Focus Friend App Climbs App Store Charts With Its Adorable Design
You must stay focused. No TikTok, no Instagram, no little phone games. If you fail, a small anthropomorphic bean will be very disappointed — because its knitting project depends entirely…
Grok Struggles to Define Its Own ‘Therapist’ Companion
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been found exposing the internal prompts that guide its cast of AI companions. These include playful personas like “Ani,” the anime-inspired character, and “Bad…
Android-to-iPhone Messages May Soon Get End-to-End Encryption
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages on iPhones could be closer than expected. Code found in early iOS 26 betas suggests Apple is already experimenting with the secure protocols that…
SpaceX’s Starlink Eyes More Capacity With E-Band Spectrum Request
SpaceX has filed a request with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand the radio spectrum available to its first-generation Starlink satellites. The proposal seeks permission to use the…
Microsoft Teams to Block Malicious Files After Ransomware Attacks
Microsoft Teams is preparing to launch new protections designed to shield users from cyber threats. Starting next month, the app will detect and warn users when malicious URLs appear in…
Grammarly Unveils Fresh Design With New AI Tools
Grammarly has launched a redesigned document-based interface, built on the foundation of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The new setup integrates a suite of AI-powered features tailored…