Salesforce employees are confused about why the company is promoting a competitor inside Slack

When Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Tuesday, a high-profile AI product that works as a persistent teammate inside Slack channels, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. Sales [...]

The Nex Playground is everything Xbox Kinect wanted to be

It's the year 2026 and the hottest game in my living room is Fruit Ninja. No, I'm not in the midst of an ill-advised retro mobile gaming kick. Instead, my family and I have been jumping arou [...]

Elon Must spent almost an hour talking about Grok without mentioning its Nazi problem

xAI has officially lunched Grok 4 during a livestream with Elon Musk, who called it the "smartest AI in the world." He said that if you make the Grok 4 take the SATs and the GREs, it would g [...]

Meta is making billions of dollars from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, report says

Meta is making billions of dollars every year from ads marketing scams and illegal products on its platform, according to a new report from Reuters. The report details the staggering numbers behind sc [...]

Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.

Pinterest reported its first billion-dollar quarter last week. Revenue hit $1.008 billion in the first three months of 2026, up 18 per cent year on year, with monthly active users reaching 631 million [...]

Australia moves to double Big Tech fines and arm its regulator over the under-16 ban

Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the government has concluded that the platforms are not taking the rule seriously enough, and is preparing to ma [...]

Respect instead of sarcasm: study uses AI for better political debates

Political debates on social media are often seen as toxic and unproductive. But a new study from Denmark suggests that targeted tweaks can make these conversations significantly more constructive.< [...]

X has to prove it wasn't negligent when removing CSAM from its site

X isn't off the hook yet when it comes to a significant legal case about child sex abuse content on its platform. On Friday, a circuit judge from the US Court of Appeals ruled that X Corp. has to [...]

Slack is transforming its Slackbot into a 'personalized AI companion'

I've been using Slack for like a decade and the platform's proprietary chatbot, Slackbot, has always been a bit underwhelming. It can deliver reminders and notifications and, well, that' [...]