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ChatGPT rolls out ads

2 days 15 hours ago

OpenAI faced a backlash late last year when it tested app suggestions that looked like unwanted ads. Still, the AI company needs to generate revenue from its popular chatbot to cover the costs of developing its technology and growing the business.

Sarah Perez

Lyft opens its ride-hailing app to teens

2 days 17 hours ago

The new Lyft service comes with a number of guardrails. Only a parent or guardian can create a teen account and drivers who are matched with these underage passengers must meet additional criteria and pass yearly background checks.

Kirsten Korosec

Anthropic closes in on $20B round

2 days 18 hours ago

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.

Tim Fernholz

Discord announces age verification will be required for all users from March

2 days 19 hours ago

Update, February 11 2026: Following a negative reaction to the announcement, the company subsequently updated it to state that "for most adults, age verification won’t be required" as the platform would be able to infer their age from "account information such as account tenure, device and activity data, and aggregated, high-level patterns across Discord communities." The company said it would not use private messages or any message content in this process.

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Jon Hicks

Can Build A Rocket Boy save itself?

2 days 20 hours ago

The latest twist in the MindsEye story came last week when staff at the Edinburgh-based studio discovered that the company had installed surveillance software on their PCs without their knowledge.

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Alex Forbes-Calvin