Stories By Ronil Thakkar
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Apple
/ 12 hours agoItaly slaps Apple with $115 million fine over App Store privacy rules
Regulators argue that rules harms Apple’s business partners and goes beyond what’s necessary to protect user privacy.
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AI
/ 12 hours agoOpenAI says AI browsers are smart, helpful, and extremely gullible
AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.
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ChatGPT
/ 12 hours agoExperts say ChatGPT Wrapped is a privacy nightmare
To turn off the memory feature: Settings → Personalization → Manage Memories
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News
/ 12 hours agoPirate library leaks more than 86 million of Spotify’s popular songs
The 86 million tracks represent only about 37 percent of Spotify’s total catalog, but a staggering 99.6 percent of all listen.
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Google
/ 1 day agoGoogle sues web scraper for pretending to be fake people
Google claims SerpApi masked millions of automated queries per day, and made them appear as if they were coming from real...
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ChatGPT
/ 1 day agoChatGPT learns some manners (you can turn them off)
Users can now tweak how warm, enthusiastic, emoji-happy, or list-obsessed their chatbot is.
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Google
/ 1 day agoGoogle says Gemini will replace Assistant on phones in 2026
Assistant will still keep handling alarms, calls, and quick questions.
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News
/ 1 day agoYouTube finally pulls the plug on AI movie trailers that never existed
YouTube has shut down Screen Culture and KH Studio, two of the most notorious offenders in the fake-trailer business.
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AI
/ 4 days agoResearchers warn of ‘AI psychosis’ as chatbots become too human
Popular AI models can consistently mimic real human personality traits, which comes with huge risks.
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News
/ 4 days agoTikTok is finally going to be America-ready
ByteDance will keep just under 20 percent of TikTok's US business ownership.
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AI
/ 4 days agoOpenAI, Anthropic aim to protect teens from AI chatbots—here’s how
The new guidelines tell ChatGPT to gently steer teens toward safer options when conversations drift into risky territory.
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News
/ 4 days agoInstacart will refund $60 million to settle US FTC allegations
The “Free Delivery" wasn't free (at all).
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Alexa
/ 5 days agoAlexa finally escapes Echo speakers with a web version
The web version lets users type instead of talk, upload files for Alexa+ to analyze, and manage everyday things.
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News
/ 5 days agoMeta tests a “Pay to Link” option on Facebook
The $14.99/month blue-check-adjacent subscription now also buys you the right to post URLs like it’s 2016.
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AI
/ 5 days agoAdobe’s AI faces a copyright reality check
Adobe’s AI education may have involved a little too much “borrowed” reading material.
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Google
/ 5 days agoGoogle drops Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default AI model
Gemini 3 Flash is based on the Gemini 3 model with a goal to: do more, cost less, and show up...
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News
/ 6 days agoHackers say they’ve got Pornhub Premium data from an analytics breach
It includes registered email addresses, approximate location, and activity details like which videos users watched
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News
/ 6 days agoInstacart may be charging you more for your groceries
A study found that some shoppers paid as much as 23 percent more than others for the exact same product.
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ChatGPT
/ 6 days agoChatGPT gets a new image generator
It offers up to 4x faster image generating speeds, more accurate editing, and improved instruction-following.
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Gear
/ 6 days agoMeta’s AI glasses can now help you with your hearing problem
The update is rolling out first to Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta HSTN glasses in the US and Canada.
