During Meta’s Q2 2026 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that other revenue in the family of apps segment crossed $1 billion, largely thanks to WhatsApp paid messaging and subscriptions. As more businesses use WhatsApp to reach consumers, users’ inboxes often get cluttered, making it hard to find...
As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly building what it believes will be the future of online connection: social networking with no algorithms, no ads, and no public content. Yope’s app, now...
Amazon announced that it’s bringing games to Prime Video by integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into the streaming platform. Games such as “Hogwarts Legacy,” “EA Sports FC 26,” “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,” “Clue,” and “Taboo” will be available on Fire TVs in the U.S....
Beyond changing how written content gets created, AI has also changed how people read it. Today, even thoughtful, original writing can be dismissed as AI-generated content if it feels too polished, predictable or generic. For agency professionals, whose credibility can hinge on perceived originality and...
TV Time, the popular TV and movie-tracking app whose pending shutdown has prompted more than 25,000 users to petition against its closure, is getting a reboot of sorts. One of the app’s original founders, Antonio Pinto, says he’s creating a new TV show tracking app, Bingers, which will attempt to rebuild the best...
Google Photos is getting a new “Video Remix” feature that can edit and transform videos in seconds, Google announced. The feature is powered by Gemini Omni, Google’s recently released model that promises to “create anything from any input.” The launch is Google’s latest push to bring more generative...
Prime Intellect, a startup that provides computing power and specialized software tools that help companies build AI agents, has raised a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation. The massive round was led by Radical Ventures, with participation from Nvidia Ventures, Intel Capital,...
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, and at Splunk and Cisco; and Ryan with consumer products at Apple and Spotify), have launched a new kind of security startup. Savi Security seeks to protect everyday...
