Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you. (With AI data, it won’t need to.)
Instagram leader Adam Mosseri says the company is not secretly listening to your conversations. At least, not through the microphone.
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Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M
Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.
Instagram tests opening right onto Reels
Instagram is testing a potentially major change to the app: making Reels the home tab of the app. As part of an opt-in test in India, Meta is making Reels and DMs the first two tabs on the app, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Mosseri says that Reels and DMs have been a key […]
OpenAI staff grapples with the company’s social media push
Current and former OpenAI researchers seem torn over how the company’s Sora app fits in with its broader mission.
Better Tomorrow Ventures closes $140M, remains bullish on fintech
The six-year-old firm’s third fund is nearly the size of it previous fund raised during the fintech boom in early 2022.
Anker offered to pay Eufy camera owners to share videos for training its AI
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.
California’s new AI safety law shows regulation and innovation don’t have to clash
“Are bills like SB 53 the thing that will stop us from beating China? No,” said Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at youth-led advocacy group Encode AI. “I think it is just genuinely intellectually dishonest to say that that is the thing that will stop us in the race.”
Trump’s solution for high drug prices is a discount portal called TrumpRx
President Donald Trump is launching a new government-run website that he says will let Americans buy medications at lower prices. The new website, called TrumpRx, is expected to launch in 2026 and will direct consumers to discounts on drugmakers’ online stores, including Pfizer’s, as reported earlier by The New York Times and NPR. The Tuesday […]
Hollywood is not taking kindly to the AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood
Tilly Norwood is not real, but the company that created her hopes that she’s the first of many AI-generated stars.
Behold: The Lego Game Boy has already been modded to play games for real
Today, the Lego Game Boy officially goes on sale. It’s surprisingly good. But in Australia, one woman has already created a more amazing version. Natalie the Nerd, the self-taught circuit board designer and Game Boy modder whose gorgeous transparent Game Boy we featured in August, is doing what Nintendo and Lego didn’t: make it playable. […]