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Bloomberg reports Apple cut more than 200 jobs in Aug. 2026 across Siri and Vision Pro, largely shutting a Vision Pro gaming team and shrinking immersive content work. Apple says the changes aim to evolve for better user experiences and add new roles.
A federal civil trial in Oakland starting August 2026 has 29 state AGs alleging Meta (Facebook/Instagram) broke COPPA by collecting under-13 data without parental consent and misled users about app operations. California Deputy AG Megan O’Neill claims Meta engineered engagement features; Meta’s Paul Schmidt cites built-in safety tools and raises Section 230.
Patreon announced a broad set of platform updates in August 2026, including a revamped discovery algorithm, new video tools, and enhanced security features aimed at improving the experience for both…
OpenAI launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT in August 2026, allowing users to connect their Messages inbox directly to the chatbot. The integration enables ChatGPT to sort, analyze, edit,…
A hacker posing as an employee of a prominent cryptocurrency news website targeted multiple cybersecurity professionals in August 2026, using a fake conference invitation and a manipulated Google Doc…
Google is rolling out a new AI-powered feature for its Discover feed that lets users describe what content they want to see, with changes set to arrive in the Google app within “coming days,” as announced in 2026.
Rippling and Runlayer dropped their mutual lawsuits on Wednesday, August 20, 2026, with no settlement reached and no money changing hands — not even lawyers’ fees, according to court documents…
Google announced in August 2026 that it is giving online publishers an embeddable “Preferred Sources” button, allowing readers to designate a site as a favorite directly from that publisher’s own…
Patreon rolled out 30 updates on Aug. 20, 2026, led by iOS Clips that convert videos into downloadable short clips or Quips, plus suggested preview tests from paid videos. It’s overhauling discovery using post-by-post topic, craft, style, and theme, alongside Niches communities and live Q&A.
Meta rolled out Pocket, its AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the United States in August 2026. The app had quietly launched in Brazil last month as a test…
Two U.S. senators have demanded answers from TikTok after the company disabled an algorithmic safety feature for 15 million American users as part of an internal experiment — one that a 16-year-old…
Corporate expense management platform Ramp launched an AI model routing service called Router on Wednesday, August 20, 2026, allowing users and companies to access and switch between multiple large…
xAI’s Grok chatbot began producing nonsensical, incoherent responses to some users in August 2026, with complaints surfacing as early as Wednesday morning. The issue appears limited to Grok Lite…
HiLight Studio by X dev Dhananjay_Tech expands Pixel 11 Pro’s HiLight LED beyond Google’s 2026 defaults—Gemini face-down glow or favorite-call alerts, with only five colors. It adds triggers like Slack keyword notifications, rainbow/wave animations, per-cycle timing/brightness control, and import/export presets, but must be installed via GitHub sideloading (not Play Store).
Slack Code launched Aug 20, 2026, letting teams tag AI agents like Claude or Devin to spawn project code channels for diff review, live HTML previews, and approval. Channels auto-archive when done and generate an audit log, with support for marketplace agents on any Slack plan.
Enterprise data and AI company Alation confirmed on Thursday, August 21, 2026, that it was the target of a cyberattack, days after reporting a service disruption that affected some of its…
Bumble ditched its women-first rule for heterosexual matches less than 24 hours after an August 2026 rollout, also stretching replies from 24 to 72 hours. Within a day, users including Robin H., 53, in Orlando reported unwanted messages, and some called it “Yellow Tinder.”
Binance launched Agent OS on August 20, 2026, a platform that allows AI agents to analyze markets and execute cryptocurrency trades autonomously on behalf of users. The move brings AI-driven…