Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from 29 U.S. states over children’s safety. The lawsuit alleged that the social media giant knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users. The states also claimed that Meta…
TL;DR: Tap into a powerful world of AI with the 1min.AI platform for just $29.97. Businesses these days are scrambling to see how AI can help them innovate and grow. While AI hasn’t exactly entered the mainstream without raising ethical and moral questions, companies are nonetheless moving fast to find ways to incorporate expensive AI…
ChatGPT can now check your insurance, cancel flights, or reschedule deliveries for you, all seemingly without seeing your login details. Announced by OpenAI on X, the AI assistant will be able to complete tasks for users that they’d usually have to open a new browser and log in with a username and password to do….
This year, gluten-free dishes included a lemon-oregano shrimp with schug and feta—a lemony-herbal romp served over rice livened up with dried apricots. (Adding dried fruit to liven up rice is a favored trick by Green Chef, one I might plan to add to my normal cooking routines.) The American-fished shrimp were plump and hearty, with…
Ventures Platform has raised an oversubscribed $84 million second fund as the Pan-African venture firm expands beyond its home market of Nigeria with a strategy shaped by a tougher, more selective venture market. The firm plans to back early-stage founders across a range of sectors, including fintech, healthcare, SaaS, and other areas “where technology can…
Apple is putting conversational AI directly into its shopping experience. Select iPhone users began seeing an “Early Preview” of a Virtual Shopping Assistant in the Apple Store app on Aug. 24, giving them a new way to ask about products, orders, trade-ins, and payment options. Apple has not formally announced the feature or said when…
TL;DR: Watch Al-Ahli vs. Auckland in the FIFA Intercontinental Cup for free on CazéTV. Access this free livestream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. The 2026 World Cup may have only just ended, but FIFA is already onto the next tournament: the Intercontinental Cup. Played for the first time just two years ago, the…
Target has set itself apart from big box retailers like Walmart by having trendy clothes, homegoods branded by reality TV stars and, of course, in-store Starbucks. With malls and traditional department stores in decline, Target has even become the go-to destination for stay-at-home parents who need to get out of the house (and maybe get…
More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent study from Truecaller. Since voice is still consumers’ preferred way to communicate, that leaves a big opportunity to automate support and outreach calls using voice AI in the country. Voice AI startup Ringg, which already processes…
Meeting bots have crashed one too many calls, so Microsoft is giving IT departments a bouncer. Microsoft is rolling out a Teams policy that can automatically block detected external bots from joining meetings, removing the need for organizers to approve or reject them manually. The feature builds on Teams’ existing bot-detection system, which currently sends…
