Year: 2026

OpenAI released an image engine for ChatGPT with “thinking capabilities” this week, as it prepares to take the necessary steps to build an advertising platform that can handle more complex queries and images. “ChatGPT Images 2.0,” announced this week, is the next step for the technology — taking on complex…

LinkedIn is looking to add another incentive to get people to verify their information, by enabling users to prioritize engagement from verified users. An updated page in LinkedIn’s Help Center outlines how users can sort comments by verified users, in order to focus on those who’ve confirmed their info. As explained…

After teasing indented replies on the Threads mobile app, the head of Meta’s Twitter-like social platform Connor Hayes highlighted an updated layout of Threads’ website, along with enhanced functionality, which Hayes states will be a point of focus in the platform’s evolution. “Web is an important part of how our most engaged users interact with…

Meta announced new price hikes for its Quest VR units, with prices for its Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S headsets going up by between $50 and $100 each. Meta attributed the change to rising hardware prices. As a result, the Meta Quest 3 unit will go from $500 to $599,…

YouTube announced new livestreaming options designed to boost community engagement, including expanded access to livestream gifts, ad-free windows based on engagement, and the ability to go live simultaneously in both vertical and horizontal formats. First, YouTube will enable viewers of horizontal-aligned livestreams to send virtual gifts during a broadcast, in addition to being able…

LinkedIn announced an expansion of its artificial intelligence-powered conversational search tools, which are designed to make it easier to find relevant members, pages and posts. LinkedIn launched its conversational search tools to LinkedIn Premium members in November, and now, it’s expanding the same capacity to all users, with improved AI matching via the…

Instagram added the ability to edit comments, a much-requested feature update that will address a key frustration in the app. The new edit option will be accessible below published comments in-stream. Tapping on the “Edit” option will open a new pop-up that essentially re-opens a comment for revision. Instagram said…

TikTok is powering up its artificial intelligence-powered generation tools for advertisers by integrating the latest Seedance 2.0 video generation model from parent company ByteDance into its TikTok Symphony ad creation toolkit. Dreamina Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance’s most advanced video generation system, able to generate realistic-looking, consistent depictions based on text prompts. As…

Siding with artificial intelligence (AI) company Perplexity, digital rights watchdogs are asking an appellate court to lift an injunction banning the company’s shopping agent, Comet, from Amazon. U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney in the Northern District of California handed down the injunction in March, after finding that Amazon was…

YouTube is raising the price of its Premium subscription offerings, with a $2 monthly increase on individual accounts and a $4 increase on family plans. As reported by 9 to 5 Google, YouTube sent a notification out to Premium subscribers alerting them to the change, which will be implemented in the…