Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Malaysia has restored public access to Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, after social media platform X introduced additional safety controls, the country’s communications regulator said on Friday.

The developers of curl have announced they are shutting down the project’s HackerOne bug bounty program at the end of January 2026, citing an overwhelming rise in low-quality and AI-generated vulnerability reports.

Vimeo has started laying off employees across its global workforce, according to a report from Business Insider.

Intel has reported a $600 million net loss in its Q4 2025 earnings, highlighting continued financial pressure on the chipmaker amid slowing demand and heavy investment in new manufacturing technologies.

Amid falling marriage and birth rates and a growing number of people living alone in China, a new mobile app is drawing attention for tackling a sensitive but increasingly common fear: dying alone.

With the latest update, users can now turn PDFs into podcast-style audio summaries, create presentations from documents, and even edit files using simple chat prompts. These features are available through Acrobat Studio, Adobe’s AI-powered document workspace that goes beyond basic PDF viewing.

Meta has announced that ads on Threads will begin rolling out to users globally starting next week.

OpenAI has rolled out a new update for its experimental ChatGPT Atlas browser, introducing several practical features designed to enhance everyday browsing.

OpenAI has announced that its future data centers will pay for their own energy needs and work to reduce water usage.

Snap has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of designing Snapchat in a way that causes addiction and harms mental health.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is trying to revive its antitrust case against Meta Platforms, accusing the company of illegally strengthening its dominance by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp.

OpenAI is rolling out a new age prediction model in ChatGPT to guess whether a user is an adult or a teenager.

OpenAI’s Chromium-based ChatGPT Atlas browser is testing a new feature likely called “Actions,” and it can now understand videos too.

Netflix’s advertising business is growing fast. The company revealed that its ad revenue more than doubled from 2024 to 2025, reaching $1.5 billion.

The UK government is exploring an Australian-style ban on social media for children, as concerns grow over the impact of endless scrolling, online pressure, and mental health.

Spotify is reportedly working on a new feature called Page Match that lets audiobook listeners continue exactly where they left off in their physical or ebook.

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972—the last time humans traveled to the Moon—NASA is preparing to send astronauts back into deep space.

Meta’s Threads is now seeing more daily active users on mobile devices than Elon Musk’s X, according to new data from market intelligence firm Similarweb.

Elon Musk has asked a US federal court to award him $79 billion to $134 billion in damages, alleging that OpenAI and Microsoft defrauded him by abandoning OpenAI’s nonprofit mission and partnering with the software giant.

TikTok has quietly rolled out a new standalone app called PineDrama, signaling a deeper push into scripted short-form entertainment.