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...

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...

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 techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/a...

Why AI browsers want to change the way you search www.doubletap.news/p/why-ai-bro...

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...

Verifying myself for the Journalists of Color slack. journalistsofcolor.us/%22

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.

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...

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...

DOTE (Department of Tweet Efficiency)

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...

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...

The future of printers is here

Well they said it is the department of government efficiency not computer efficiency

BuzzFeed is launching is launching its own social network. You won’t believe what the 14th post says. www.buzzfeed.com/island/manif...

Brother LinkedIN, I am not excited to share anything.

People in Europe don’t mess around

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. techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/m...

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.

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.

OpenAI is rolling out ability to sign up with just a phone number in India and the U.S.

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...

Alt Headline: CEO of AI Music Company Has Never Spoken to an Actual Musician

Thanks for clarifying

They got JK Rowling to write the new guidelines.

Silicon Valley: AI is the future The future:

What's the cut off date for when you have to stop saying "Happy new year" to people you chat with?

AI for dispensing spice? It's called being Indian. youtu.be/bAVi_vdlRd8

This is from Meta's transparency page, and I have no idea what counts as less than half of the group in this scenario.

Weird (Zuckerberg's version)

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. techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/i...

The year is 2026: My AI agent will fact-check your AI agent on an AI-generated post.

Gettestock? Shutty Images?

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. techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/m...

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!

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. techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/a...

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.

Highly appreciate all websites that have article completion indicators.

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/...

Very obsessed with this tiny robot cat by Yukai Engineering that blows on your hot tea/coffee.

All We Imagine As Shite — Man Utd fans this season.

At this rate, they’ll have a Love Is Blind World Cup

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.

This year’s cat crop has grown beautifully

I always wanted a music app for my microwave and washing machine.

Pretty interesting that Bluesky shows a trending carousel in the discover feed and not thankfully in the following feed.

What is the point of internet when there is no good Nirmala Sitharaman-Here comes the money edit?

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?

Love this ad of a dog toy because the toy transforms a bored lab into a happy retriever

Just caught a Snorlax