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-The company started a pilot program last year to allow developers to create dedicated AI note writers.  X’s Keith Coleman told Engadget that AI writers are “prolific” and that one has contributed more than 1,000 notes that were rated as helpful by other contributors.

-Vibes was introduced as a feature in the Meta AI app in September 2025. Similar to OpenAI's Sora app, Vibes lets users prompt Meta AI to create TikTok-style vertical videos.

-The US Central Intelligence Agency is ending one of its popular services, The World Factbook.
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The company said that integrating advertising would 'work against' the core principles of the chatbot.
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-The backdrop to the SCAM Act is a Reuters report from last November. Meta reportedly estimated that up to 10 percent of its 2024 revenue came from scam ads. The company is said to have calculated that as much as $16 billion of its revenue that year was from scams, including "fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online casinos and the sale of banned medical products."

-While it's true that X is the only major social network to make elements of its recommendation algorithm open source, researchers say that what the company has published doesn't offer the kind of transparency that would actually be useful for anyone trying to understand how X works in 2026.

-As The Wall Street Journal recently reported, the AI industry has been hoovering up manufacturers’ available memory chips and hard drives for its infrastructure developments.
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We're tracking all of the rumors about Apple's foldable phone, including when it could launch and possible price.
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-he Luffu mobile app "uses AI quietly in the background" to collect and organize family health information. But the definition of family isn't limited to parents raising children. The company sees its tool as especially valuable for caregivers in their 40s and 50s who may be managing the needs of both aging parents and kids. It even tracks pets' health habits.

-Microsoft could launch the next-generation Xbox console sometime in 2027.

-Apple has just released Xcode 26.3, and it's a big step forward in terms of the company's support of coding agents.
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