Instagram confirms it’s developing a Snap Map-like ‘Friend Map’ feature

February 26, 2024

Instagram is developing an opt-in “Friend Map” feature that would allow users to see their friends’ locations in real time, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The company says the feature, which is similar to Snapchat’s Snap Map, is an internal prototype and is not being tested externally. The feature was first spotted […]

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Threads adds a bookmarking feature for saving favorite posts

February 26, 2024

Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is shaping up to look more like its competitor X with the recent launches of trending topics, an in-app camera, drafts, and as of today, a bookmarking feature for saving posts for later reference more privately than using a public “like” (the heart icon.) Bookmarking has been a popular […]

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Microsoft announces ‘AI access principles’ to offset OpenAI competition concerns

February 26, 2024

On the heels of Microsoft’s investment and partnership with French Large Language Model startup Mistral AI, the company continues to work hard to try to dispel the image that it’s blocking competition through its deep partnership (and financial stake) in OpenAI. Today the company launched a new framework it’s calling “AI Access Principles” — an eleven-point […]

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