For years, UMG has pushed platforms, streaming services, and AI companies to implement stricter content moderation policies.

The streaming service said that, starting today, there will be over 650 long-form magazine articles (available in English only) from publications like Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork.

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New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.

Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman's human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. Zoom will show a badge on verified participants' tile.

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.

The new returns feature is the company's latest effort to become an everything app. There are limitations to the new service, and there is, of course, a courier fee.

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. 

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you're interested in.

X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier

The YouTube Premium individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family plan is increasing from $22.99 to $26.99 per month.

Google Chrome's latest update brings vertical tabs and a cleaner Reading Mode to help manage cluttered browsing.

The app uses iPhone Live Activities to alert you when scary scenes are about to happen, while also tracking what to watch and where to stream it.

Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place.

Justin Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as a joke.

Adobe Acrobat Student Spaces is a free tool for students to use AI and create different kinds of study material from documents.

Flipboard's social websites consolidate profiles and posts from Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, YouTube, podcasts, blogs, and RSS feeds into a single, shared destination.

ElevenMusic lets users create and remix songs using text prompts. The new app suggests ElevenLabs wants to be more than just a voice model company.

Meta is laying off several hundred employees across multiple teams, including sales, recruiting, and the Reality Labs division. The cuts will impact employees in the U.S. and other international markets.

Apple is adding 100+ new App Store Connect metrics, giving developers deeper, first-party insights into monetization, subscriptions, and user behavior as it doubles down on its app ecosystem in the AI era.