A Facebook feature that gives Meta AI the ability to suggest edits to photos stored on your phone’s camera roll, but haven’t yet been shared, is now rolling out to all users in the U.S. and Canada. The company announced on Friday that users can choose to opt in to …
Read More »Crypto’s next chapter with Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko at Disrupt 2025
Solana Labs CEO and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko takes the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, to chart where crypto goes next — from the meme coin frenzy to real-world finance and everything in between. This is one fintech conversation you will …
Read More »SK Telecom’s AI unit offers staff voluntary retirement program just weeks after launch
South Korean telco giant SK Telecom is making big changes at its new AI division, AI CIC, just weeks after it was launched. Staff employed by the unit are being offered a voluntary retirement program as part of a broader effort to bring together the company’s various AI-related divisions, SK …
Read More »OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr.
OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. using its AI video model, Sora. The company says it’s adding this safeguard at the request of Dr. King’s estate after some Sora users generated “disrespectful depictions” of …
Read More »Tech Entrepreneur Damilare Ajiboye Inducted as African Youth Ambassador, Delivers Keynote at Diplomatic Conference
Technology entrepreneur and Founder of Ocean Trends Digital Limited, Damilare Ajiboye, has been officially inducted as an African Youth Ambassador by the African Union Youth Council (AUYC) Nigeria Chapter, during the 2025 African Youth Diplomatic Conference and Induction Ceremony held at the Army Resource Centre, Asokoro, Abuja. The event, themed …
Read More »Reddit expands its AI-powered search to five new languages
Reddit announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. With this expansion, the feature is now available in countries like Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Italy. Users who have set one of these languages as their default, …
Read More »Defunct electric aircraft startup Lilium’s tech lives on over at Archer
Electric aircraft startup Lilium may have ceased operations a year ago, but its insolvency filing wasn’t quite the end of the German-based company. There were multiple failed attempts to restructure the company, including a last-ditch effort by Mobile Uplift Corporation, a company set up by investors from Europe and North …
Read More »VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation after Benioff’s National Guard comments
Ron Conway, the founder of venture firm SV Angel, known for its early investments into Google, Airbnb, and Meta, has resigned from Salesforce Foundation, the New York Times reported. The resignation follows Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff saying last week that he “fully supported” President Trump and thought National Guard troops …
Read More »Waymo dips its wheels back into delivery, this time with DoorDash
The sprawling metropolis of Phoenix continues to be a testbed for Waymo, and not just on the technical front. The Alphabet-owned company has used its first testing and commercial market to experiment with its business model, too, including delivery. Waymo is known for its robotaxis, but it has tested how …
Read More »A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world
Zehra Naqvi recalls the magical days of the early social internet. She grew up in the One Direction and Marvel fandoms in the early 2010s. This was back when people posted photos of lattes using the Valencia filter on Instagram, and Twitter was still Twitter, a place where people came together to exchange jokes and cultural …
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