Ivan Mehta
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Scoop: WhatsApp changed terms of its Business API to ban general purpose chatbots. This will impact WhatsApp bots of ChatGPT and Perplexity.
techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/w...
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WhatsApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is banning general purpose chatbots from using its Business API
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-changes-its-terms-to-bar-general-purpose-chatbots-from-its-platform/
6 days ago
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To put a limit on spam, WhatsApp is now testing limits on how many messages users and businesses can send in a month without getting replies
techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/w...
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WhatsApp will curb the number of messages people and businesses can send without a response | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is testing a way to limit number of messages someone can sending in a month without getting a response to limit spam
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/whatsapp-will-curb-the-number-of-messages-people-and-businesses-can-send-without-a-response/
7 days ago
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Atlassian is buying Arc and Dia maker The Browser Company for $610 million in an all-cash deal. This shows how tough it is to make browsers a viable business
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Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M | TechCrunch
Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-to-buy-arc-developer-the-browser-company-for-610m/
about 2 months ago
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Why AI browsers want to change the way you search
www.doubletap.news/p/why-ai-bro...
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Why AI browsers want to change your search behaviour
And why that is more important for them than developing agents
https://ivanmehta.substack.com/p/why-ai-browsers-want-to-change-your
3 months ago
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Breaking: WhatsApp is adding ads. These ads will show up in Status, the chat app's Stories clone. Meta says it will only use data like country or city, language, and the channels you are following to serve you ads.
techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/w...
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WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen | TechCrunch
After years of not showing any ads, WhatsApp is adding ads to Status updates.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/whatsapp-is-adding-ads-to-the-status-screen/
4 months ago
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Verifying myself for the Journalists of Color slack.
journalistsofcolor.us/%22
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https://journalistsofcolor.us/"
4 months ago
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Image generation/editing is very trendy in India right now. 13 out of top 20 free apps on Play Store are Chatbots or AI photo editing apps.
7 months ago
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India created a browser challenge, mainly so that applicants can include the country's indigenous root certificate. However, the challenge didn't go well, especially after winners were found pretty much forking popular browsers
www.doubletap.news/p/the-unfini...
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The unfinished products of India's browser challenge
India wants an indigenous browser but the way government's browser challenge went, there might not be a good contender anytime soon.
https://www.doubletap.news/p/the-unfinished-products-of-indias
7 months ago
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Breaking: Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Saudi-owned Scopely for $3.5 billion. The company is still choosing to run Ingress Prime and Peridot under a new entity called Niantic Spatial.
techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/p...
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Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B | TechCrunch
Mobile gaming giant Scopely on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Pokémon Go maker Niantic's gaming division for $3.5 billion.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/pokemon-go-maker-niantic-is-selling-its-games-division-to-scopely-for-3-5b/
8 months ago
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DOTE (Department of Tweet Efficiency)
8 months ago
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Today Amazon said that it is ending support for its app store for Android devices. The company will continue to use the app store for its own devices like Fire TV and Fire Tablet, where the majority of the users interact with the store.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/a...
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Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android | TechCrunch
Amazon will discontinue its app store for Android on August 20 this year. The company sent a notice to developers indicating that they will no longer be
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/amazon-is-shutting-down-its-app-store-on-android/
8 months ago
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Email client Superhuman is adding AI-powered labeling/categorization based on email content. The real kicker is that you can create your own labels through prompts. If this works well, it can mail sifting through inbox much easier.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
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Superhuman introduces AI-powered categorization to reduce spammy emails in your inbox | TechCrunch
It has been more than two years since ChatGPT burst on the scene. Shortly after that, it seemed like almost every email app integrated AI-powered email
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/superhuman-introduces-ai-powered-categorization-to-reduce-spammy-emails-in-your-inbox/
8 months ago
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The future of printers is here
8 months ago
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Well they said it is the department of government efficiency not computer efficiency
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8 months ago
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BuzzFeed is launching is launching its own social network. You won’t believe what the 14th post says.
www.buzzfeed.com/island/manif...
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BuzzFeed Island
Sign up to keep up to date with BuzzFeed Island
https://www.buzzfeed.com/island/manifesto
8 months ago
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Brother LinkedIN, I am not excited to share anything.
9 months ago
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People in Europe don’t mess around
9 months ago
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Meta moves fast. The company announced a new CapCut rival called Edits, while the ByteDance-owned app remains unavailable in the U.S. The company had started testing Reels just days after TikTok got banned in India in 2020.
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Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits | TechCrunch
Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple's App Store and the Google
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/meta-announces-a-new-video-editing-app-called-edits-amidst-tiktok-and-capcut-ban/
9 months ago
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One key difference between India TikTok ban and US TikTok ban is that in 2020, short video market didn’t have many competitors. People rushed to build short video apps after the ban. This also included Meta and Google coming up with their own short video products.
9 months ago
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My fear is that they wil take all of Derek Guy’s posts, make a chatbot out of it and take out all the charm.
9 months ago
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OpenAI is rolling out ability to sign up with just a phone number in India and the U.S.
9 months ago
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I won't be surprised if CEOs of AI consumer companies will push towards this narrative of "Oh the old way is so boring, AI is exciting and the best" because they want to sell their product.
www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-mu...
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CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music
"I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”
https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/
9 months ago
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Ivan Mehta
Anuj Ahooja
9 months ago
Alt Headline: CEO of AI Music Company Has Never Spoken to an Actual Musician
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Thanks for clarifying
10 months ago
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They got JK Rowling to write the new guidelines.
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10 months ago
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Silicon Valley: AI is the future The future:
10 months ago
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What's the cut off date for when you have to stop saying "Happy new year" to people you chat with?
10 months ago
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AI for dispensing spice? It's called being Indian.
youtu.be/bAVi_vdlRd8
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How it works
YouTube video by Tomer Eden
https://youtu.be/bAVi_vdlRd8
10 months ago
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This is from Meta's transparency page, and I have no idea what counts as less than half of the group in this scenario.
10 months ago
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Weird (Zuckerberg's version)
10 months ago
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More than 90 sites with government domain name are being redirected to scam sites. And a lot of these sites have been in this state for months. Plus, there is no auditing to periodically check these sites.
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Indian government websites are still redirecting users to scam sites | TechCrunch
Some Indian government websites are still redirecting to links planted by scammers.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/indian-government-websites-are-still-redirecting-users-to-scam-sites
10 months ago
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The year is 2026: My AI agent will fact-check your AI agent on an AI-generated post.
10 months ago
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Gettestock? Shutty Images?
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10 months ago
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Massive call by Mark Zuckerberg to drop the third-party fact-checking network and adopt X-styled community notes. This means the company is putting the burden of fact-checking on its users across its networks.
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Meta drops fact-checking, loosens its content moderation rules | TechCrunch
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails that
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/meta-drops-fact-checking-and-loosens-its-content-moderation-rules/
10 months ago
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Ivan Mehta
Ed Morrish
10 months ago
tech bros: we built a machine that can tell you stuff loudly and confidently! us: cool. is it right about stuff? tech bros: we cannot stress enough how loud and confident it is!
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Apple said it will make changes to prominently display labels on notification summaries to indicate that they are generated by AI. The onus is still on the user to understand that if there is an error, it's an AI hiccup.
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Apple to label notification summaries to indicate use of AI | TechCrunch
Apple said on Monday it would release an update to better indicate that its notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence. "A software
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/apple-to-label-notification-summaries-to-indicate-use-of-ai/
10 months ago
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Ivan Mehta
Pranav Dixit
10 months ago
I’ve covered Meta’s impact on South Asia previously, and I'm eager to bring a global perspective to this beat. Current or former Meta employees, reach me on Signal — your identity is safe.
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Highly appreciate all websites that have article completion indicators.
10 months ago
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Ivan Mehta
Abhishek Baxi
10 months ago
India's sex-tech category is booming, even if the products have to hide behind euphemisms like ‘massagers’. In Mint Lounge, I write about how a growing number of Indians are rejecting traditional notions of shame and embracing a more sex-positive outlook.
www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/...
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https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/business-of-life/sex-tech-india-leeza-mangaldas-mymuse-that-sassy-thing-11735976009229.html
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Very obsessed with this tiny robot cat by Yukai Engineering that blows on your hot tea/coffee.
10 months ago
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All We Imagine As Shite — Man Utd fans this season.
10 months ago
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At this rate, they’ll have a Love Is Blind World Cup
10 months ago
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India’s new draft rules under data protection act proposes that children must take parental consent while creating account on services such as social networks.
10 months ago
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This year’s cat crop has grown beautifully
10 months ago
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I always wanted a music app for my microwave and washing machine.
10 months ago
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Pretty interesting that Bluesky shows a trending carousel in the discover feed and not thankfully in the following feed.
10 months ago
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What is the point of internet when there is no good Nirmala Sitharaman-Here comes the money edit?
10 months ago
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The Honey extension saga should be taken more seriously given all companies are building AI agents that might have less transparency. How do you even know if an agent for shopping is favouring one company, brand or product over another?
10 months ago
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Love this ad of a dog toy because the toy transforms a bored lab into a happy retriever
10 months ago
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Just caught a Snorlax
10 months ago
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