Meta updated its commercial terms of use to state it could "use any content from a business account's domains, web pages, or URLs" to provide, develop, improve, research, train and maintain its products and services. Legal experts quoted by Nieman Lab read this as a "remarkable provision" that could let Meta scrape any publisher with a Me…
Meta's AI companion app Muse has reached 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, 10.2 million of them in the United States, according to Sensor Tower. Only 11 other apps have reached 10 million U.S. downloads within 40 days of launch. The most recent was Threads in July 2023, and most of the others were mobile games. Muse is ava…
Yelp has added a Check for Me feature to its app. An AI voice agent calls a restaurant on the user's behalf to check wait times and texts the result back, based on the party size and phone number the user enters. Yelp is also updating its Yelp AI assistant with an OpenTable booking integration, memory of preferences, 30 days of chat histo…
Court records obtained by NPR show that TikTok employees repeatedly warned executives about risks the platform posed to minors, including sexual exploitation and exposure to suicide-related content. Employee depositions filed in March 2026 describe frustration with how leadership responded. Staff reportedly flagged minors appearing in sex…
On Tuesday Google released TorchTPU as an open-source project. It lets PyTorch AI applications run on Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and Google Cloud through a configuration change, with no application rewrite. A day earlier Amazon announced TorchNeuron, which ports PyTorch apps to its Trainium chip and AWS. Amazon is also submit…
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying DeepSeek products and services and to remove them from government IT systems, citing national security concerns. The order also covers third-party products and services built on DeepSeek technology, though agencies may request exceptions. DHS…
Tolan, an AI companion app that helps users manage daily tasks, relationships and emotions, raised $30 million from Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew, according to Upstarts Media. The round doubles its total funding. The company did not disclose its valuation; PitchBook estimates it at more than $268 million with medium …
At its first Config conference in India, Figma announced 20 new model context protocol (MCP) partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode and Sarvam Agents. Co-founder Dylan Field said MCP is "not a perfect protocol" and favors frontier labs. He also criticized Anthropic, MCP's cr…