A teenager who was subjected to a four-year catfishing campaign after another teenage girl stole her identity has won a £10,000 payout. Sasha Davies, now 19, was targeted as a 16-year-old by Elha-Mai …
A teenage student, Sasha Davies, has won £10,000 in High Court damages after Elha-Mai Weston, another teenager from the same Welsh town, stole her identity and used her photos and AI-generated imagery…
Fine-tuning large language models for social media trends is often the wrong first step, according to a technical analysis that distinguishes between freshness, detection, interpretation, and generati…
Fans of Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland have embraced him as a 'babygirl' and 'princess' during the FIFA Men's World Cup, but much of the viral content featuring him is AI-generated, leading news…
Teens are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for homework help and emotional support, mirroring the early social media obsession of the 2010s. Experts warn this trend could lead to digital addiction,…
A Rohnert Park mother thwarted the sale of a marijuana vape pen to her 12-year-old child, leading to the arrest of the alleged seller. The suspect communicated with the child via Snapchat and was arre…
Meta has placed its Conversation Focus feature for Ray-Ban smart glasses behind a $19.99 monthly subscription, limiting free use to three hours per month. The feature, which amplifies voices during fa…
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…