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First things first: Does Meta’s new Instagram Maps automatically share your location with everyone?No. It doesn’t.The new maps feature, which rolled out this week, does not share your location by default. If you do want to share your location, it will only be visible to your Instagram friends, or a subset of them.Next: Is it reasonable for many Meta users to believe that Instagram Maps automatically shares their location with everyone?Yes. That makes quite a bit of sense.Which is why Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri seems to have spent much of the last two days trying to find every single person…
During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing — and perhaps funniest — snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.” One of the new features that GPT-5 rolled out is a real-time router that decides which model to use for a particular prompt, either responding quickly or taking additional time to “think” through answers. But multiple people in the AMA on the r/ChatGPT Reddit complained…
The Trade Desk’s shares cratered nearly 40% on Friday, its worst decline on record, and analysts say competition from Amazon may be to blame.The Trade Desk, which helps companies target people across the web with ads, beat expectations in its earnings — but that wasn’t enough to quell Wall Street’s concerns. In commentary, analysts also cited the departure of the adtech company’s CFO, but largely focused on the Amazon factor in explaining the stock drop.The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green responded to analysts’ questions, saying his company would continue to serve an important role because it’s a neutral seller of…
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady’s statue weighs six tons and rises 17 feet off the ground, from the bottom of the six-sided base — one for each of the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl victories — to the tip of the bronze fist raised in celebration.For a player who was too slow and immobile coming out of college to merit more than a No. 199 draft pick, that seems just about right.“When I was drafted, I just hoped to make the team. I never dreamed I’ll be standing here two and a half decades later, made of bronze and…
Sometimes it’s nice to have a simple app that does one thing well without a lot of fuss. Microsoft Lens was that type of app: a mobile document scanner that turned paper documents, business cards, receipts, and anything else into easily readable digital files. Now that app is being discontinued, Microsoft says, as it directs its users to its Copilot AI chat app instead. According to a new support document, Lens will be retired from iOS and Android devices starting on September 15, 2025, then removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play on November 15, 2025. Existing users…
The viral Tea app, which lets women post anonymously about men, has a new rival: TeaOnHer. In a gender flip, the new app is for men.TeaOnHer is largely a copy of the original, but for men instead of women. Its description in Apple’s App Store is nearly identical to that of the other Tea app, which is officially called Tea Dating Advice.TeaOnHer has climbed up Apple’s App Store chart for free apps this week. As of Friday, it’s the No. 3 spot. That’s right behind Tea, which is at No. 2. (ChatGPT is at the top.)The app describes itself as…
AI-generated “brain rot” videos are popping up all over the internet and getting a lot of attention. Currently gaining traction among younger users, these clips feature wild characters, like a shark wearing sneakers and a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head. One startup driving this trend is OpenArt, founded by two former Google employees in 2022. It touts around 3 million monthly active users. The company recently launched a new “one-click story” feature in open beta, which allows users to input a single sentence, a script, or even a song and turn it into a one-minute video with a…
Is it just me, or does this summer feel super busy? New AI models are launching all the time. M&A dealmaking is unusually active. Funding rounds are getting done. How’s your summer going? Let me know (if you have time!).AgendaCentral story unit Apple CEO Tim Cook at the White House with President Donald Trump Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS Who’s on Apple’s AI shopping list?If you’re a Big Tech CEO, what’s the worst way to spend a summer day? Attending a White House event as President Donald Trump rants about Jeffrey Epstein coverage while you stand there, waiting. That’s gotta be up there.I’m…
The summer surge of COVID-19 doesn’t appear to be slowing down — instead, a key indicator for tracking the spread of the virus has increased, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.In an update shared Friday, official data showed wastewater activity for COVID-19 is now at a “moderate” level nationwide, up from “low” the previous week.Wastewater levels for the virus are currently the highest in the Western U.S., the data also showed. States in this region showing high levels include: Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah.”Wastewater monitoring can detect viruses spreading from one person…
A man previously convicted of sexual assault who killed a Connecticut visiting nurse at a halfway house pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison in a case that reignited calls for better protections for home health care workers across the country.Michael Reese, 40, admitted that he killed Joyce Grayson on Oct. 28, 2023, at the home in Willimantic where he was living under electronic monitoring while on probation for stabbing and sexually assaulting another woman in 2006. The prison sentence, which mandates no early release or parole, was part of a plea deal.Grayson, a…