Telegram’s Pavel Durov finds himself at the center of a huge legal or political storm following his recent arrest in France. He was detained at Le Bourget airport near Paris after landing on a private jet from Azerbaijan.  Shrouded in secrecy, the arrest has raised alarms in Russia and the ...

Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. will let users create their own AI-powered chatbots and add them to their profiles, an effort to court creators and further integrate the company’s artificial intelligence software into its most popular consumer products. The feature, called AI Studio, lets ...

  WhatsApp’s video calling functionality has all the essential features. However, Meta is now making it even better by adding three new features: support for up to 32 people in video calls on Mac and Windows, screen sharing with audio, and Speaker Spotlight. WhatsApp for Mac and Windows ...

With Telegram, you can create group chats with up to 200,000 people so you can stay connected with everyone at once. Plus, you can share videos up to 2GB, send multiple photos from the web, and forward any media you receive in an instant. All messages are in the cloud, so you can access ...

Leading AI developer OpenAI riled up the tech world and the mainstream press alike on Thursday when it introduced a new model specification that many interpreted to mean that its wildly popular generative AI tools would be allowed to generate not-safe-for-work adult content. “We believe ...

Bumble’s redesigned dating app has a new “Opening Move” feature that’s supposed to take the legwork out of starting conversations. Women on the app can now choose from a list of prewritten prompts — or come up with their own — that the app will send to all their matches. Unlike dating ...

Microsoft Research Asia has unveiled a new experimental AI tool called VASA-1 that can take a still image of a person — or the drawing of one — and an existing audio file to create a lifelike talking face out of them in real time. It has the ability to generate facial expressions and head ...

Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security. The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated ...

For months now, the company behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generator has been publicly falling apart — and now it's conducting mass layoffs. As CNBC reports, Stability AI — the creator of the image generator — laid off 20 people this week as the company attempts to "right-size" its ...

Back in 2021, Google embarked on an ambitious mission that put Google Maps at the forefront of its efforts to reduce vehicle emissions and cut the carbon footprint when the app is in charge of navigation to a user-defined destination. The eco-friendly routes worked like a charm, and Google says ...

It's becoming increasingly difficult to determine what is AI-created as tools' capabilities continue to improve. Marking AI-created images is one solution and an option Snapchat is expanding on. The platform is introducing a watermark on AI-generated content that is saved to your camera roll ...

The price of a monthly subscription to Tesla's (kind-of) self-driving software has just been cut in half. Tesla's Full Self Driving (Supervised) subscription now costs $99 per month, a reduction from the previous standard of $199. Tesla instituted the $199 monthly upgrade fee in 2021, back ...

  AI just keeps getting smarter: another significant upgrade has been pushed out for ChatGPT, its developer OpenAI has announced, and specifically to the GPT-4 Turbo model available to those paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Enterprise. OpenAI says ChatGPT will now be better at ...

DuckDuckGo, the search engine known for its commitment to user privacy, has launched a new subscription service called Privacy Pro. This service aims to provide users with a more comprehensive suite of privacy protections beyond what is available for free through the DuckDuckGo browser. The ...

Spotify is debuting AI Playlists in specific parts of the world within a beta period, providing access to a new feature that will allow users to "fuel discovery and music curation." This is through a feature that allows the user to type a prompt in its chat, with an AI calculating songs ...

Security researchers put the much-touted guardrails placed around the most popular AI models to see how well they resisted jailbreaking, and tested just how far the chatbots could be pushed into dangerous territory. The experiment determined that Grok—the chatbot with a “fun mode” developed by ...

More than 40% of all websites around the internet are based on WordPress. This latest version of WordPress puts more power into the details. It offers new and improved ways to fine-tune and enhance your site-building experience, letting you take control in ways that make it your own. You'll ...

Telegram has added a couple of features that aim to take its app far beyond its roots as a mere messaging tool. On Sunday, the company announced that anyone with a Premium account can turn their Telegram account into a business account and get all the associated benefits, and that channel ...

Since releasing ChatGPT and ushering in the generative AI era, OpenAI has stayed ahead of the curve with cutting-edge AI technology such as Sora, its impressive text-to-video generator. On Friday, the company took another step forward by sharing insights from its small-scale preview of Voice ...

  WhatsApp allows you to post videos of up to 30 seconds in length in your status, and people have been requesting the platform to increase the limit. Well, the company has heard and it is extending the limit of videos that you can post in your status. According to a new report from ...

Apple just added transcript support for its Apple Podcasts app, making podcasts easier to navigate and accessible to more people (via Apple). With this new feature, users will be able to read a podcast from start to finish, search the transcript for a specific word, and tap on any part of the ...

AI is making its way into a lot of things these days. You can always use ChatGPT and even Google Gemini to create code for apps and things. Website builders like Wix will even let you use AI to craft new websites. But are AI website builders actually worthwhile? Well, the answer is kind of ...

What just happened? The enormously popular TikTok is once again facing a ban in the US if owner ByteDance fails to sell off the short-form-video app. A group of lawmakers has announced a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok within about five months should it pass, otherwise, the app ...

If you've heard of pocket, it's probably from using Mozilla Firefox for any decent amount of time. Mozilla's Pocket offers one of the simplest solutions to the problem of keeping up: save it for later. Through the course of a day, you likely scroll by several articles you can't read just yet, ...

"I don’t care if you live or die." Unlawful Robot Microsoft's Clippy, the animated paperclip-shaped chatbot of olde, was at times presumptuous — popping up unsolicited with unhelpful suggestions — but at least he never told us to kill ourselves! Not so with Microsoft's new artificial ...

Microsoft is introducing more abilities to Copilot in Windows, starting with plugins to integrate with other services, as well as a series of skills that lets it integrate more deeply with your PC settings. Next month, Microsoft will introduce even more features, including AI photo editing, ...

Windows users are well aware that Microsoft is no stranger to trying to nag them into submission. The company has a history of pestering users to switch to its web browser and to upgrade to the latest version of Windows, and this is a practice that it not only continuing, but expanding. ...

Fan favorite Nitrux has reached version 3.3.0 (download ISO here), a significant jump for the Linux-based operating system. Dubbed "ab," the new distro features software updates, bug fixes, performance enhancements, and comprehensive hardware support. If you're looking for an alternative to ...

A reader of ArsTechnica was receiving the personal data of other users, including account passwords and unpublished research papers. According to the latest report from Ars Technica, the cause of those ChatGPT histories were caused by a compromised account. A representative from OpenAI ...