Apps

Meta adds AI-powered features to WhatsApp Business app

Last year, during the Q3 2023 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg talked about leveraging AI to have business accounts respond to customers for purchase and support queries. Today, Meta announced AI-powered features for WhatsApp Business apps, such as helping with the creation of click-to-WhatsApp ads and generating responses to frequent customer messages. Mark Zuckerberg announced these

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Google Play cracks down on AI apps after circulation of apps for making deepfake nudes

Google on Thursday is issuing new guidance for developers building AI apps distributed through Google Play, in hopes of cutting down on inappropriate and otherwise prohibited content. The company says apps offering AI features will have to prevent the generation of restricted content — which includes sexual content, violence and more — and will need

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Google partners with RapidSOS to enable 911 contact through RCS

Google said today it is partnering with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to enable users to contact 911 through RCS (Rich Messaging Service). The company noted that with RapidSOS’s solution, it will start deploying the technology this winter to users where text-to-911 capabilities are not available. Initially, this feature will be available only

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Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed

An important step toward a more interoperable “fediverse” — the broader network of decentralized social media apps like Mastodon, Bluesky and others — has been achieved. Now, users on decentralized apps like Mastodon, powered by the ActivityPub protocol, and those powered by Bluesky’s AT Protocol, can easily follow people on other networks, see their posts,

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Travel app Sékr wants to help you plan your next road trip with its new AI tool

Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips. The new tool, called Copilot, is available on the startup’s updated website and app, which is used by more than 100,000 users.  Sékr was founded in 2016 with the goal of helping

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