Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they’re s. The feature could help improve creators’ authenticity, so fans know when a product recommendation is an original sentiment, versus a paid sponsorship, while also complying …

Hundreds of tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply-chain risk. ” The letter also calls on Congress to step in and “examine whether the use of these extraordinary authorities against an American technology company is appropriate. …

Following the surprising news that Netflix had withdrawn its bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Paramount Skydance stepped in to purchase the company. On Monday, CEO David Ellison announced during a call with investors that the company plans to merge Paramount+ and HBO Max into a single, unified platform. …

Many users are switching to Claude following a string of controversies surrounding ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI. The tipping point came after Anthropic, the company behind Claude, refused to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. In response, …

Instagram tracked the time users spent on its app, with company executives flagging “milestones” that its app reached year after year. The app’s daily usage grew from 40 minutes per day in 2023 to 46 minutes per day in 2026, according to documentation revealed during CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in …

One of the chief problems with “luxury surveillance” devices, like smart glasses with baked-in video recording cameras, is that they often look indistinguishable from regular eyewear, meaning you might be recorded without knowing it. But now there is an app that can detect and alert you when someone nearby is …

As Sam Altman discovered Saturday night, it’s a fraught time to do work for the U. , the OpenAI CEO announced he would be fielding questions publicly on X, as a way of demystifying his company’s decision to pick up the Pentagon contract that Anthropic had just walked away from. …

PayPay, Japan’s leading mobile payment app, has reportedly postponed its U. IPO due to market volatility and recent conflict in the Middle East. The company was planning to release its IPO price range on Monday, March 2. PayPay aimed for a valuation of at least ¥1. 5 trillion ($10 billion), …

Stripe on Monday released a preview of a new feature that could help AI startups (and other companies) solve the problem of passing through the underlying costs of AI model usage to their customers. Stripe’s feature, however, goes even further than just passing through the costs of the tokens. It …

app uninstalls of ChatGPT’s mobile app jumped 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, as consumers responded to the news of OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense (DoD), which has been rebranded under the Trump administration as the Department of War. This data, which comes from market intelligence provider Sensor …