FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others
The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.
How to turn off autoplay on your social media feeds
Here’s how you can turn off autoplaying videos and GIFs on Facebook, Instagram, X, Twitter, and Threads.
Help, I have been charmed by the iPhone Air
Apple’s sleek iPhone Air has a powerful processor and large display, but its battery life and camera might be a problem.
Apple’s creator-centric iPhone 17 Pro will make the vlogging camera obsolete
Apple unveiled its new line of iPhones on Tuesday, and the iPhone 17 Pro is making a direct appeal to content creators.
New emojis will include Bigfoot, orca whale, treasure chest, and more
The Unicode Consortium has confirmed its next slate of emojis, coming in the next year to eager thumbs near you.
Meta suppressed children’s safety research, four whistleblowers claim
Four whistleblowers share documents with Congress alleging that the company may have suppressed research on children’s safety.
The growing debate over expanding age verification laws
As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.
Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers
Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.
Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg
Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he’s losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.
X’s encrypted DM feature, XChat, is rolling out more broadly
Though the feature shipped in beta in May, XChat is now accessible for more users, including those who do not subscribe to X Premium.