<p>Pinterest is upgrading its visual search feature with a handful of new capabilities. On Monday, the company announced it&#8217;s rolling out new functionality to improve its feature that allows users to search using an image instead of text. This includes new tools to more precisely narrow and refine searches, as well as those that make [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Donald Trump has already delayed a TikTok ban twice, and he said Sunday that he’s willing to do it again. Axios reports that during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said that if a deal isn’t made to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to American owners before the current June 19 deadline, he [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review! We&#8217;ve got lots of news for you today: Amazon earnings, Apple earnings, ChatGPT sycophancy, Alibaba&#8217;s AI models, and much more. Let&#8217;s get to it! Well? During Apple&#8217;s earnings call yesterday, Tim Cook revealed that the company paid $900 million in tariffs last quarter. But despite this, the CEO didn&#8217;t [&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>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>Pinterest says it&#8217;s finally going to do something about the AI slop that&#8217;s taken over its platform. After an increasing volume of complaints, the social networking and image pinboarding site announced Wednesday a plan to begin labeling AI-generated and AI-modified images. It will also introduce a new option that allows users to reduce the number [&hellip;]</p>

<p>X is now allowing select creators to upload videos in 4K resolution, and will roll out the feature to all premium subscribers soon.</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>After integrating Meta AI into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, Meta is rolling out a stand-alone AI app. Unveiled at Meta&#8217;s LlamaCon event on Tuesday, this app allows users to access Meta AI in an app, similar to the ChatGPT app and other AI assistant apps. To win over users, Meta is trying to leverage [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a bid to broaden its user base in India, Reddit has updated its machine translation feature to support the automatic translation of posts and comments into Hindi. &#8220;With this expansion, authentic, more people-powered content is now accessible in one of India’s most spoken languages,&#8221; the company wrote in an update to a blog post. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person responsible for the hack apparently leaking data, including a list of moderators and “janitors” (one janitor told TechCrunch they were “confident” that the leaked data was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage users, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ says that after learning about internal concerns regarding whether the company was doing enough to protect minors, it spent months conducting hundreds of conversations [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review! We&#8217;ve got tons of news for you this week: Slate EVs spotted in the wild; Airbnb pricing updates; a hack at Blue Shield; and much more. Let&#8217;s go! Get a clue: Cluely is an AI-based tool that helps people cheat on exams, sales calls, and even job interviews. Though [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instagram Edits, Meta&#8217;s newly released video creation app, had a bigger debut than its direct competitor, ByteDance&#8217;s CapCut, once did. The new app, which today helps users craft videos for Instagram Reels, stories, and other social posts, was downloaded an estimated 702,900 times on iOS devices during its first two days on the market. That&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, walked into the sunlit hotel conference room in Brooklyn on Thursday to meet with a dozen youth leaders working in tech safety, policy, and innovation. The young adults chatted away at black circular tables, many unaware of his presence until he plopped down at a table and started talking with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an hour. According to a message on Bluesky&#8217;s status page, the company was aware of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta laid off employees on Thursday in its Reality Labs division, which encompasses various virtual and augmented reality projects. The cuts impact employees within Oculus Studios, which develops apps and games for Meta&#8217;s Quest headsets. Meta did not specify how many people were impacted by the layoffs but said that the cuts impacted people working [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children who have suffered from online harm are still putting pressure on social media companies to step up. On Thursday, 45 families who lost children to online harms — from sextortion to cyberbullying — held a vigil outside one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instagram Threads, Meta&#8217;s newest social network and X competitor, is officially relocating from the website Threads.net to Threads.com. The transition will coincide with a handful of quality-of-life improvements for the Threads web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, saved posts, and likes, as well as other tools for creating new columns, copying [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The funeral of Pope Francis will be livestreamed on YouTube on Saturday. Pope Francis passed away earlier this week at age 88 due to a stroke and cardiac arrest. Vatican News&#8217; YouTube channel will begin coverage of the funeral at 10 a.m. CET/4 a.m. ET, with availability in English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German. [&hellip;]</p>