Monday, October 12, 2026
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Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, launched Radar on Wednesday, a podcast search engine that transcribes and semantically indexes more than 130,000 shows for both human and AI-agent users.
Bluesky increased its video upload limit from three minutes to 10 minutes, matching TikTok's default limit, and also raised the maximum file size and upload speed.
Instagram is rolling out "First Draft," a feature that automatically trims clips and removes pauses to assemble a rough Reels cut in under 10 seconds, starting on iPhone.
Life360 is expanding its pet-tracking lineup with $7.99 scannable tags that notify a family's app when someone scans a lost pet's QR code, plus care-log and "Zoomies Alerts" features.
Apple abandoned a planned change that would have moved Hide My Email addresses to a new domain, after users said it would make masked emails easier to detect.
Andy Dunn's social app Pie launched 'Community Homes,' giving its roughly 300,000 users permanent group homepages and shifting its focus from events to communities.
Uber is rolling out a feature letting parents livestream a teen's ride via the driver's selfie camera, starting in nine markets and expanding nationwide in coming weeks.
WhatsApp is rolling out stronger account-security features, including a longer alphanumeric two-step verification option, support for multiple passkeys per account, and more context on calls from unknown numbers.
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman launched Luffu Link, a $250 LTE-enabled wearable combining health sensing, voice logging, and location sharing for family caregivers.
Instinct, a private-access AI personal assistant that connects to a user's email, messaging apps, and devices, is winning praise for its capability while testers flag a security model and terms of service they find worrying.
Flipkart Minutes now delivers 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, closing in on Swiggy's Instamart as Amazon also pushes into India's quick-commerce market.
Walmart says it will start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at its stores from August 24, ending a long-standing holdout.
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plug-in that lets ChatGPT connect to a user's Messages inbox to sort, draft, and send texts on their behalf.
Google is rolling out an embeddable "Preferred Sources" button that lets readers flag a publisher's site as a favorite, boosting its visibility across Search, Discover, and Google News.
Runlayer and Rippling dropped their dueling lawsuits Wednesday night with no settlement, ending a public fight over competing AI "MCP gateway" products.
Ramp launched Router, an AI model-routing service free to use through the end of 2026, letting companies switch between models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek through a single API.
Meta's vibe-coding gaming app Pocket, which lets people generate small AI-prompted games, is now rolling out to everyone in the US after debuting quietly in Brazil last month.
Patreon launched 30 new or revamped features on Thursday, including a short-form video tool called Clips and a redesigned discovery algorithm meant to favor smaller creators.
Meta launched a Mac app for Meta AI with system-wide dictation and screen-aware answers, alongside business features that connect Instagram, Facebook, ad campaigns, and Google Workspace accounts.
Binance launched Agent OS, letting AI agents analyze markets and execute trades for users, but is leaving most responsibility for keeping those agents in check to the users themselves.