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Meta has a new AI pet app called Waddle World

Instagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videos

Anthropic officially files for its public debut

Spotify confirms Family Plan crackdown

Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose

SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

Meta’s Muse hits 10M U.S. downloads in 40 days

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Mark Wahlberg talks about using AI in film ‘the right way’

Flock CEO defends surveillance technology

Netflix to lay off 1,000 staff

Bumble agrees to a $1.3B acquisition deal

Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

Flock cuts staff

Google brings agentic AI to Gemini

Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets

Paramount closes historic Warner Bros. merger to form Skydance

TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout

Shopify debuts Canvas

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon