Block, Atlassian, Salesforce, and Snapchat have laid off thousands of employees, replacing roles with AI, while Czech insurer Direct is firing a third of its staff, citing the end of "playing around w…
Shopify launched Campaign Autopilot, an AI-powered marketing automation tool that creates, manages and optimizes campaigns across multiple channels from a single dashboard. The tool, available in earl…
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip at the Augmented World Expo, promising 60% better graphics and 160% more AI processing power for augmented and mixed reality glasses. The chip aims …
Snap launched Specs, a $2,195 pair of augmented reality glasses, at AWE USA 2026. The glasses feature dual Snapdragon chips, hand tracking, voice control, and a 51-degree field of view, and are availa…
TikTok's UK ad business, growing 40% year on year, faces a setback after Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed plans to ban under-16s from the platform. The proposed legislation targets multiple socia…
The United Kingdom announced a ban on social media for under-16s, more restrictive than Australia's, including restrictions on live-streaming and AI chatbots. The ban, supported by 90% of parents in a…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a ban on social media use for children under 16, targeting platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, with exceptions for messaging …
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing to ban social media for under-16s and impose nighttime curfews for older teens, targeting platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. The propo…
Snapchat announced a 10x increase in advertisers in India over two years, driven by immersive ad formats, AI targeting, and high-attention Chat ads. With 250 million users, the platform is capitalizin…
In December 2024, a freshman at Radnor High School in Pennsylvania used a paid app called Movely to create nonconsensual deepfake sexual images of five female classmates, sparking widespread conflict …
Anthropic and OpenAI have acquired package manager companies Bun and Astral respectively, signaling growing interest from frontier AI labs in these software development tools. Package managers are pro…