<p>Airbnb started rolling out an AI-powered customer service bot in the U.S. last month, CEO Brian Chesky said during the firm&#8217;s first-quarter conference call on Thursday. Chesky said 50% of Airbnb&#8217;s U.S. users are already using the AI bot for customer service, adding that the company plans to roll out the feature to all its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple has changed its App Store rules in the U.S. to let apps link users to their own websites so they can buy subscriptions or other digital goods. This change comes after a U.S. court ruled in favor of Epic Games in a case against the iPhone maker, ordering the latter not to prohibit apps [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says there are two kinds of people who come to the social media platform: Scrollers and Seekers. Scrollers are the ones who come to Reddit’s core product, to engage in community conversation about topics they’re passionate about, from r/sourdough to r/popculturechat. Then there are the Seekers, the people who might type [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Payments processing software provider Stripe is ready to help iOS app developers bypass Apple&#8217;s cut of App Store transactions. Following Wednesday&#8217;s ruling in the Apple-Epic antitrust trial, where Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers outright shamed Apple for not permitting external payment links in apps as she had previously ruled, Stripe shared documentation that shows iOS developers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anthropic on Thursday launched a new way to connect apps and tools to its AI chatbot Claude, as well as an expanded &#8220;deep research&#8221; capability that allows Claude to search the web, enterprise accounts, and more. The new app connection feature, called Integrations, and expanded deep research tool, dubbed Advanced Research, are available in beta [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is pissed off at Apple. Really, really pissed off. In Rogers&#8217; newly released 80-page decision, she took Apple and its executives to task for defying the court&#8217;s orders in its original case with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Though Apple largely won that round, as it was determined the tech giant was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Grocery-delivery giant Instacart announced Thursday the acquisition of Wynshop, a provider of cloud-based e-commerce solutions for grocers. The deal will help Instacart improve its enterprise solutions, enabling retailers to enhance their online experiences. The company didn’t disclose deal terms.&nbsp; Wynshop launched its platform in 2020 and provides online storefronts for grocers, working with clients such [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Epic Games&#8217; mega-popular Fortnite is promising a return to the U.S. iOS App Store next week after a surprising ruling in a years-long legal battle with Apple. The dispute between Epic and Apple began in 2020, when Apple removed Epic Games from the iOS App Store. Because Apple takes 30% of all in-app purchases, Epic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MoviePass, the startup that made its mark with its movie theater subscription service, has always been known for shaking things up, and its latest venture is no exception.  The company announced on Thursday the beta launch of Mogul, a new daily fantasy entertainment platform designed specifically for the Hollywood industry.  To understand what Mogul is, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion people using it every month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company&#8217;s Q1 results conference call on Wednesday. Founded in 2009 and acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014, WhatsApp remains free to use and doesn&#8217;t serve any ads. The app reached the 2 billion monthly [&hellip;]</p>

<p>World, the biometric ID company best known for its eyeball-scanning Orb devices, on Wednesday announced several partnerships aimed at driving sign-ups and demonstrating the applications of its tech. World is partnering with Match Group, the dating app conglomerate, to verify the identities of Tinder users in Japan using World&#8217;s identity verification system. Additionally, World has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Epic Games has notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, as a result of which Fortnite could return to the U.S. iOS App Store as early as next week. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a ruling on Wednesday that Apple was in &#8220;willful violation&#8221; of a 2021 injunction that prohibited the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s Gemini chatbot app now lets you modify both AI-generated images and images uploaded from your phone or computer, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Native image editing in Gemini will start rolling out gradually today. The service will be expanded to people in most countries and get support for more than [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instagram Threads, Meta&#8217;s X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company&#8217;s Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday. That&#8217;s an increase of 30 million users since the prior quarter, where Meta reported that Threads had 320 million users. The new figure represents increased growth, as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Since it launched nearly 20 years ago, Speedtest.net has been one of the most popular tools used to measure internet speeds. However, Doug Suttles, the founder and former CEO of Ookla, the network testing company behind Speedtest, felt that just measuring speed was not enough to tell people all they wanted to know about their [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There’s an unspoken pressure nowadays to share all your special moments online, whether it be birthdays, graduations, or engagements.&nbsp; However, not everyone has the skills to take high-quality pictures, and people often find themselves too distracted to snap the perfect shot. While hiring a professional photographer is an option, it may not always be feasible [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Duolingo is introducing 148 new language courses that were created with generative AI, the company announced on Wednesday. The launch comes as Duolingo has been facing backlash this week after sharing that it was going to replace contractors with AI and become an &#8220;AI-first&#8221; company. The company says the launch of the new courses doubles [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As part of its Q1 2025 earnings release, Snap said it&#8217;s scrapping plans for a simplified version of its app. The news comes seven months after Snapchat began testing a redesigned version of the app without the Snap Map or Stories tabs. The new version consolidated the app&#8217;s navigation bar around three icons: chat, camera, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google Play&#8217;s app marketplace is losing apps. From the start of 2024 to the present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting about 3.4 million apps worldwide to just around 1.8 million, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures. That&#8217;s a decline of about 47%, representing a significant purge of the apps [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews feature available in 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched last year to give users the ability to generate a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on documents they have shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal [&hellip;]</p>