Meta is introducing a $20/month Meta One Premium subscription that limits the Conversation Focus feature on its smart glasses to 15 hours per month for subscribers, down from an unlimited free tier. T…
Bangladesh police officer SI Tanzil Ahmed used AI-based editing to alter an arrested suspect's Argentina jersey to a Brazil jersey in an official photograph, claiming it was a prank to generate public…
LeapXpert raised $180 million in a growth round led by Riverwood Capital on June 30, 2026, to convert governed business messaging data into AI-ready intelligence for regulated enterprises. The funding…
Infobip released the India Digital CX Report 2026, revealing that 91% of brands in India and Indonesia use WhatsApp for customer engagement, but only 27% employ orchestration platforms, highlighting a…
A new system architecture called WhatsApp Coding enables mobile-first development by using a secure proxy chain between WhatsApp, a GCP VM, and a local MacBook, allowing technical executives to valida…
Meta launched its AI assistant in Israel with native Hebrew support across WhatsApp, desktop, and mobile apps, enabling content creation, image analysis, and reasoning tasks. The rollout leverages Met…
Suny Choudhary draws a parallel between WhatsApp's username-based privacy and AI prompt sanitization, arguing that developers should strip sensitive identifiers from inputs before sending them to mode…
WhatsApp announced it will allow users to go by unique usernames instead of phone numbers, giving over three billion users more control over who can contact them. The Meta-owned platform began letting…
WhatsApp announced Monday that users will soon be able to use unique usernames instead of phone numbers to contact others, closing a privacy blind spot. The Meta-owned app, with over 3 billion users, …
A new AI service lets local businesses install an automated receptionist that answers customer messages around the clock, using the open-source framework OpenClaw. The setup, sold for around $1,997, c…
A developer explains the real-world latency behind LLM API calls, tracing the journey from user prompt through submarine cables to data centers and GPUs. The post highlights how geographic distance, e…
A developer built a WhatsApp-based pet clinic appointment scheduling agent using n8n, Google Gemini, Redis, and HighLevel. The agent handles natural language conversations to book vet appointments, ma…
CopilotKit released OpenTag, an open-source, self-hosted AI agent for Slack that reads threads, answers questions, calls tools, and renders rich results inline. The tool allows users to bring their ow…
Microsoft is transforming Windows 11 into an AI operating system by integrating local AI models and agents that enable natural language interactions and task automation. At its Build event, the compan…
A developer is replacing a screenshot-based vision system with UI hierarchy inspection for an Android automation agent. The old approach using OCR and template matching failed across different devices…
Meta appointed Kunal Shah, founder of Indian fintech CRED, as global head of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart, and led a $900 million financing round valuing CRED at $4.5 billion. The move signals Me…
Kindway built Reach, an AI agent platform for SMBs on WhatsApp and Instagram, but found that non-technical users struggled with prompt engineering. The team pivoted from a prompt-editing interface to …
Amazon seller Jack Nekhala reported to Amazon that a woman offered to bribe an employee to unfreeze $90,000 in funds, providing evidence of an international black market for inside access. Amazon ackn…
A developer encountered three pitfalls while enabling WhatsApp on the self-hosted Hermes Agent from Nous Research, including issues with Docker and unprivileged LXC containers, and ultimately found a …
A developer created an n8n workflow integrating OpenWA with WhatsApp to build an AI bot with three varieties: personal contact, group message, and group message with @agent mention. The workflow uses …