The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Makes Me Wish All Phones Had a Privacy Screen
…It's nice to have more feature parity, in case you prefer using one app over the other. Some of these new AI capabilities are in your face or, frankly, useless (or…
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ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance
…like ChatGPT, is nothing new. “They want to monetize something they see that people are going to try and do anyway,” says Kate Devlin, a professor of AI and society at King…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…Competitors including Google are exploring how ads can be woven into the user experience of generative AI tools and features. "Nothing about our policy of not sharing people’s conversations or other…
Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’
Google introduced a dramatic redesign of the Fitbit app last year in public beta, centered around a new AI-powered Health Coach chatbot that can provide guidance on anything and everything from…
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
…Google rolled out a new Android feature this week aimed at the wave of AI-powered impersonation scams that help fraudsters spoof a familiar number and clone a person’s voice. Packaged…
Instagram’s New Instants App Is a Snapchat Clone for Thirst Traps
…app or feature that’s promoted as ephemeral messaging will lead to spicy pics shared between adults. Snapchat was seen the same way at its launch, with a 2012 Business Insider headline…
Qobuz Is the Anti-Spotify Music Streamer You’ve Been Waiting For
…The first winds of change arrived with Liz Pelly’s January 2025 book Mood Machine, which criticized Spotify’s business practices, featuring interviews with former employees and artists calling for fairer industry…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…New York Times in February showed the company had planned to roll out the feature during a “dynamic political environment,” when Meta believed its biggest critics would be preoccupied. Three AI models…
The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…play habits and business models could dictate future features, whether that’s engagement farming, selling data, or pushing paid add-ons. “We've seen this with influencers, but AI is now pushing…
Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App
…Mills says having more disasters in Watch Duty was always the plan, but ensuring the feature works has been a challenge—especially during busy fire seasons. “We wanted to start working on…