Tag: Social & Online Media

YouTube is testing an AI search mode that ‘feels more like a conversation’

Google is determined to impose AI search onto as many of its products as possible, and the...

Meta will show parents the topics of their teens’ AI conversations

With countries banning social media for kids left and right, Meta is trying different things to convince...

Threads introduces ‘live chats’ for following live events

Meta has introduced a new "live chats" feature to Threads, enabling people on the platform to participate...

YouTube is muting push notifications from channels you don’t watch

YouTube notifications can get messy fast, particularly if you’re subscribed to a lot of different channels. To...

Bluesky is having some issues in one of its ‘reginos’

Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform says some of its systems are down and...

Estonia is the rare EU country opposing child social media bans

As child social media bans spread across Europe and beyond, Estonia isn't having it. On Friday, the...

YouTube Premium’s US pricing is going up

Another day, another subscription price hike, this time for YouTube Premium. Every plan for YouTube’s ad-free tier...

X moves the ashes of TweetDeck behind its $40 Premium+ subscription

X Pro, the feature most users would recognize as TweetDeck, has been removed as a benefit of...

Meta is letting creators fill their Reels with shopping links

It's about to get a lot easier for creators on Facebook and Instagram to push products to...

Pinterest CEO says teens under 16 should be banned from social media (but not Pinterest)

Pinterest's CEO has thrown his support behind an Australia measure banning social media for younger teens and...

Elon Musk misled investors during his Twitter takeover, jury finds

A group of former Twitter investors have prevailed at a federal civil trial over Elon Musk's actions...

Meta will move away from human content moderators in favor of more AI

A little more than a year after ditching third-party fact checkers and rolling back much of its...

Digg shuts down for a ‘hard reset’ because it was flooded with bots

Digg has shut down, for now, just a few months after its open beta launched. Justin Mezzell,...

Meta is bringing more international news to its AI

Meta AI should soon be better at surfacing international news content thanks to a set of new...

Grammarly has disabled its tool offering generative-AI feedback credited to real writers

Superhuman has taken its writing assistant Grammarly on quite the merry-go-round ride regarding its approach to AI...

Google starts rolling out Gemini in Chrome to users in Canada, India and New Zealand

At the start of the year, Google brought a host of new Gemini-powered features, including built-in Nano...

Meta is buying Moltbook, the ridiculous social network populated by AI bots

Meta is snapping up Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents that has been around since...

The 10 best sleep apps and gadgets for a better night’s sleep in 2026

Tech has a bad (and deserved) reputation as a sleep killer. Blue light, incessant scrolling and information...

Snap is hosting its own creator awards show

It seems like any and every industry can have its own awards show these days. And why...

LA County lawsuit accuses Roblox of exposing children to ‘grooming and exploitation’

Los Angeles County has sued Roblox for "unfair and deceptive business practices," claiming the platform's moderation and...

Snapchat is rolling out creator subscriptions

Snapchat is taking a page out of Meta's handbook. The social media platform has announced it will...

Meta turned Threads algorithm complaints into an official feature

Threads users have been complaining about its recommendation algorithm pretty much since the beginning of the platform....

A developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed

While it's important to stay informed about what's going on in the world, endlessly scrolling through your...

Google brings its Nano Banana image generator to Chrome

Following its recent AI makeover of Gmail, Google is bringing more Gemini-powered tools to Chrome. Starting today,...

Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing

Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered...

Threads has more global daily users than X on mobile for the first time

Meta’s Threads is pulling further ahead of Elon Musk’s X on mobile, based on recent estimates from...

The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children is suing xAI over nonconsensual deepfake images

Although X removed Grok’s ability to create nonconsensual digitally undressed images on the social platform, the standalone...

OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside of ChatGPT "in the coming weeks." In a blog post...

Bluesky’s ‘Live Now’ badge is available to everyone

After testing the feature in a limited beta, Bluesky is making its "Live Now" badge for streamers...

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is switching to a subscription-only service

Tesla will stop selling its $8,000 Full Self-Driving (FSD) option and make it strictly a monthly subscription...

YouTube will let you exclude Shorts from search results

YouTube introduced some new filters to its advanced search tools today. Possibly the most exciting change is...

Roblox now requires age verification to use in-game chat

Roblox Corporation, the company behind the popular online game platform Roblox, announced today that age verification will...