Spotify hints at a more chatty voice AI interface in the future
Spotify says AI will allow for “much more interactive” consumer experiences in its app.
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Tea app’s second data breach exposed over a million private messages
Dating safety app Tea experienced a second data breach in as many weeks, exposing over a million sensitive messages between users.
YouTube rolls out age estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections
YouTube is introducing age detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply prtections.
Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants
Yelp is going to use AI to stitch together user-posted content about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses to make short videos about those businesses. The company initially started testing the AI-stitched videos last year, but they’re now available nationwide on the iOS app’s TikTok-like vertically scrolling home feed. Business operators can’t currently see the videos […]
Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app Bitchat now on App Store
Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat is now available on the App Store, but security researchers have questioned the app’s privacy claims.
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Cash App now lets you pool money with friends who don’t use the app
Cash App is introducing a new peer-to-peer feature that allows you to pool money together for group payments, even with people who aren’t Cash App users. When a pool is created, the organizer can request contributions with in-app “$Cashtag” invitations, or via texts and shareable links for group members who use Apple Pay and Google […]
TikTok adds YouTube Music as an option to save songs playing in videos
You can now save tracks playing in TikTok videos directly to a playlist on YouTube Music.
Adobe adds new AI-powered image editing features to Photoshop
Adobe is adding an improved background removal tool to Photoshop using AI, so the app doesn’t leave weird artifacts in your images.
Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images.
Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist
In response to a question about how AI works with today’s legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there’s no legal confidentiality for users’ conversations.