Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
… Kuscher says the company is still building a cross-device experience, but platform limitations will restrict some features. …
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Meta Copies Snapchat’s Homework Again With ‘Plus’ Features for Instagram and Facebook
… Spiegel, the cofounder and CEO of Snap, has never actually worked at Meta, though his social media platform has directly inspired at least some existing features on Instagram. …
X’s Big Bot Purge Wiped Out a Lot of People’s Secret Porn Feeds
… Even as X has failed to control bad actors, the platform has also been a crucial digital reservoir for consensual sexual media and queer education. “When social media platforms purge sexual content, queer and trans creators are always collateral damage,” says Alexander Monea, an associate professor… …
Anthropic’s New Product Aims to Handle the Hard Part of Building AI Agents
… The majority of Anthropic’s recent revenue growth has come from Claude Platform, an enterprise product that allows developers to tap into the company’s AI models through an API, according to Anthropic’s head of product for the Claude Platform, Angela Jiang. …
He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
… I want to continue to have this platform be an ethical platform, always standing on our values moving forward. When it comes to monetization, there are a lot of ways to monetize existing social media platforms. …
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
… This is by design, given that platforms often want to train their AI models on as much user data as possible and have made it hard to opt out of having your information used as training data. …
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
… The account protections Meta debuted on Wednesday include expanding its Messenger scam detection features for more users around the world, introducing warnings about potentially suspicious activity when a user is initiating a new WhatsApp device link, and testing new Facebook alerts to flag potenti… …
Elon Musk’s XChat App Is More Like Facebook’s Messenger Than Signal
… It’s just another niche in the fragmented field of messaging platforms. Outside of people who are already power users of X, XChat seems like a frivolous chat platform that just doesn’t have the juice.
These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr
… When thinking about how MeetMarket could operate, Bowden studied different economic models and was drawn to the platform-cooperative movement, which is all about digital platforms being communally owned and managed by the people who use them. “I don’t necessarily want the people who buy shares li… …
You Can Get Some of Your Nudes Removed From the Internet Under a New Law
The Take It Down Act applies broadly to a range of apps and online services, including social media and gaming platforms, according to business guidance published by the Federal Trade Commission, which is responsible for enforcing platforms’ compliance with the law. …