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Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, now has its own Hidden Words settings that operates separately from Instagram.

The AI feature, first introduced at Google’s I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries.

How one network transformed from an entertainment platform to a community catalyst

Uber Eats customers in Atlanta can now opt in to have their food delivered via sidewalk delivery robots, following partner Serve Robotics’s launch on Thursday. The move comes just two days after Uber and Waymo launched a commercial robotaxi service in the city. 

The company laid off around 1% of its total workforce, or around 140 employees. It’s the third round of cuts since the start of 2024.

Omead Afshar, one of Musk’s top lieutenants, is out after more than seven years at the company. He was recently elevated to a VP role in late 2024.

Kai West was arrested in France, along with four other hackers, all suspected of being part of the well-known hacking forum, BreachForums.

DHS said low-level cyberattacks targeting U.S. networks are “likely” in the wake of military conflict between the US and Israel, and Iran.

The authors alleged that Meta trained its AI models on their copyrighted works without permission, potentially violating copyright law.

Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI superintelligence unit, a person familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had departed OpenAI. Bansal’s LinkedIn page says that he left OpenAI in June. Bansal […]