Meta has stopped Facebook, Instagram and Threads users from sharing a database claiming to contain thousands of names and photos of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, citing privacy ...

You probably don't put much thought into brushing your teeth. If you use an electric toothbrush, you assume it's getting your teeth cleaner than a manual toothbrush. However, there are better ways to ...

An ongoing conversation — both within and outside of the tech community — has been about just how and when OpenAI, which is currently valued at $500 billion, will make money. Well, there’s one ...

Free users in the US now have access to “Thinking (3 Pro)” for “Complex reasoning and generative layouts.” There are daily usage limits, with Gemini 3 Flash now powering the “Auto” model. Similarly, ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington on politics, demographics and inequality. On Dec. 24, 2008, President George W. Bush revoked the pardon he granted a day earlier to Isaac Robert ...

Tinder is looking to AI to revitalize its dating app, which has now reported nine straight quarters of paying subscriber declines, as of the third quarter this year. The dating app maker, Match Group, ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. With 3 billion monthly users, Instagram joins the ranks of the Facebook and WhatsApp platforms, both of which ...

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Facebook will soon begin issuing payments to millions of users as part of a $725 million settlement over claims that the social media platform misused user data. The settlement stems from several ...

Some PayPal and Venmo users can now access Comet for free. The offer includes a one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro. Comet is Perplexity's new AI-centric web browser. PayPal and Venmo users in the ...

Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venmo ...