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Disney+ and ESPN are testing AI-powered search that lets users describe what they want in plain language
14+ hour, 19+ min ago (26+ words) Disney+ and ESPN are beta testing AI search. ESPN answers sports questions from decades of data. Disney+ recommends shows based on mood, not just viewing history....
Europe's IRIS² Starlink rival moves to deployment
17+ hour, 24+ min ago (402+ words) Europe's answer to Starlink just moved from planning to production. And on the way, it got bigger. On 7 August, the European Commission and the SpaceRISE consortium signed an implementation agreement for IRIS², the EU’s sovereign satellite network, pushing it from planning…...
Judge won't block California's addictive-feeds law
17+ hour, 56+ min ago (447+ words) Meta, TikTok and YouTube argued that curating a teenager's feed is a form of free speech. A California judge disagreed, calling a personalised feed something closer to a mirror than a message. On 5 August, Senior US District Judge Edward Davila…...
The web turned 35, and now they want hotels in orbit
22+ hour, 49+ min ago (417+ words) The world wide web turned 35 this week. To mark the moment, a company flew to Tokyo to pitch hotels in orbit. Quite the glow-up for a tool built to pass physics papers around a lab. On 6 August 1991, a British scientist…...
OpenAI removes the daily limit on free ChatGPT chats and upgrades the default model to GPT-5.6 Luna
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (366+ words) The Next Web OpenAI removes text chat limits for free ChatGPT users. GPT-5.6 Luna becomes the default, with 62% fewer factual errors. Free users get a Think button. Sol gets a reasoning slider for paid users. OpenAI is removing usage limits…...
Google Maps can now order your food, book your hotel, and read your calendar. Ask Maps just became an agent.
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (476+ words) The Next Web Google Mapsâ Ask Maps gains agentic features: food ordering, hotel booking, event tickets. Personal Intelligence connects Gmail and Calendar for personalised answers. Rolling out in the US. Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company…...
Reddit is replacing Automod with AI that reads intent, not keywords. Old Reddit's days are numbered.
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (489+ words) The Next Web Reddit plans to replace Automod with LLM-powered Rules Hub, restrict public API access, and eventually phase out Old Reddit. 130M daily users, 100K+ communities. Changes roll out over months. Reddit announced plans to replace core moderation infrastructure that has…...
TikTok withheld a safety fix from millions, document shows
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (748+ words) A confidential internal document, reported by Bloomberg, shows that TikTok kept a safety change from 10% of US users, about 15 million people, to measure the effect on engagement. According to the document, the control group included a 16-year-old who was fed…...
Chinese carriers never left US networks, House report says
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (477+ words) The Salt Typhoon hack that breached America's biggest phone carriers had a back door hiding in plain sight. A bipartisan House report finds three Chinese state-owned carriers, pushed out of the US years ago, never removed their equipment or network…...
Texas hits the brakes on data centres it once courted
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (140+ words) Texas will audit every data centre before it can connect to the grid, after requests to plug in hit five times the state's record peak demand....