Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared on stage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month. “Give it a year, we’ll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate,” Srinivas said. […]
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Bonfire Social, a new framework for building communities on the open social web, launched on Thursday during the FediForum online conference. While Bonfire Social is a federated app, meaning it’s powered by the same underlying protocol as Mastodon (ActivityPub), it’s designed to be more modular and more customizable. That means communities on Bonfire have more
X announced on Thursday that it’s launching an experiment that will recognize posts that are liked by people who normally disagree. The experiment leverages the platform’s crowdsourced Community Notes feature, which is currently used when content has been marked as misleading or incorrect. Starting Thursday, a subset of Community Notes contributors will see callouts to
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Google on Thursday announced an update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model that the company claims is better at certain programming tasks. The company’s calling it an “updated preview,” building on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro that Google announced around a month ago. Google says the model will roll out in general availability
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Snapchat announced on Thursday that it’s launching a watchOS app to allow Apple Watch users to access the social network on their wrists. With this new app, users can now use Snapchat across mobile, web, tablets, and Apple Watch. Users can now preview an incoming message and also reply using the keyboard, Scribble, Dictation, or
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Ahead of its Worldwide Developer Conference on June 9, Apple on Thursday offered a new update on its global App Store business, sharing that developers generated $1.3 trillion in billings and sales in 2024. The company stressed that 90% of those billings and sales did not involve paying Apple a commission. The study also noted
Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform’s content to train large language models. In an update on Wednesday, the company added a line under “Reverse Engineering and other Restrictions,” a subsection of restrictions on use: “You shall not and you shall not attempt to (or allow
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As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have surfaced, including a potential new name for the operating system, an entirely new design inspired by the Vision Pro, and more. Here’s a roundup of the most notable features rumored to be coming to iOS 19. New name Sources
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Snap has launched a standalone Lens Studio iOS app and web tool, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tools are designed to make it easier for anyone to create AR Lenses through text prompts and simple editing tools. With the Lens Studio app, users will be able to do things like generate their own
Payments and subscription infrastructure providers Paddle and RevenueCat have teamed up to launch an alternative to Apple’s in-app purchases in the wake of a U.S. App Store policy change that now allows app developers to process their own payments. The companies on Tuesday announced a new integration that allows users to make purchases from developers’
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