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Indian startup head appointed as new WhatsApp boss

Meta has tapped Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp, as the US tech giant seeks ways to monetise the messaging app's massive user base. The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied...

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Reset your relationship with tech

Put distance between yourself and the dings and pings

Apple loosens grip on iPhone apps - with a catch

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How 2024 will be AI’s ‘leap forward’

Artificial intelligence is set to advance at a rapid rate, becoming more powerful and spreading into the physical world. (Victor Arce/The New York Times)

Turning to an old model to cut screen time

TheOrbic Journey V flip phone. (Orbic via The New York Times)

How strangers got my email from ChatGPT

A visualisation of a large email dataset from the Enron Corporation, which is often used to train artificial intelligence systems, like ChatGPT. — NYT

X users report global outage: monitoring site

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At Meta, millions of underage users were an open secret

Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users younger than 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019

Meet Mira Murati, the engineer now leading OpenAI

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Apple to improve green vs blue texting experience

Longstanding texting problems between Android and Apple owners will ease next year.

You paid $1,000 for an iPhone, but Apple still controls it

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Google in talks to invest in AI startup character

An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich

OpenAI lets small businesses customize ChatGPT

The ChatGPT website in New York, July 10, 2023. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)

Relief in crypto world over Bankman-Fried conviction

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Electric planes start to take to the skies

In addition to having no emissions, electric aircraft are designed to be simpler to operate and maintain than conventional helicopters and planes.

Elon Musk teases audio and video calls at X

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