4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (413+ words) TikTok removed more than 15.5 million videos across eight MENA markets during the first three months of 2026, offering another indication of the enormous moderation challenge facing platforms operating at the scale of modern social media. Iraq accounted for the largest share,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (323+ words) WhatsApp is giving music a little more breathing room in Status updates, doubling the maximum length of song clips from 15 seconds to 30 seconds. The change is beginning to reach users on both iOS and Android, although it is not yet…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (392+ words) Google is pushing Gemini deeper into its productivity apps, but this time the pitch isn’t another chatbot sitting beside your work. Gmail, Docs and Keep are getting new “Live” experiences designed around voice conversations, allowing users to search email, create…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (214+ words) Existing Plus subscriptions include a limited Astra allowance. Users who exhaust that allocation can purchase additional usage through credits, rather than needing to move to another subscription tier. The headline improvements over GPT-5.6 Sol are particularly noticeable in OpenAI’s benchmark…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (346+ words) Euromonitor International is bringing its Passport market research platform directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving organisations a way to query proprietary market intelligence without jumping between Copilot and a separate research service. The new Euromonitor Passport agent is the company’s first…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (270+ words) If AI agents ever needed a reminder that discussing your escape plans on a public wiki is not exactly master-villain behaviour, this may be it. According to Reuters, the activity began in May and eventually produced thousands of messages on…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (378+ words) Google is giving Gemini a more selective way to watch videos, allowing its AI models to decide which parts of a recording actually deserve closer attention instead of processing everything at a largely fixed rate. The new capability, called agentic…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (344+ words) Instagram is putting AI influencers on notice. The platform is introducing clearer labels for profiles built around artificial people and says accounts that fail to disclose their AI-generated identities could have their reach reduced. The change replaces Instagram’s existing “AI…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (437+ words) For businesses that spent Monday wondering where their email had gone, Microsoft finally had some encouraging news — but not a complete fix. The company says mail flow is gradually recovering after an outage disrupted Outlook, Exchange Online and other Microsoft…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (246+ words) OpenAI is preparing to remove its AI models from Cursor after the coding platform’s acquisition by SpaceXAI, setting up another flashpoint in the increasingly complicated relationship between major AI companies and the platforms built on top of their models. According…...