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After holding back for nearly two years, YouTube has officially introduced a dedicated app for the Apple Vision Pro, giving users a more complete way to watch videos inside Apple’s mixed-reality headset. When the Vision Pro first hit the market, YouTube chose not to create a native app. Instead, users were directed to access the platform through the Safari browser. While functional, the browser-based experience lacked several conveniences — most notably offline downloads — which limited its usefulness for travelers or anyone without consistent internet access. In the absence of an official solution, third-party developers attempted to bridge the gap.…

Artificial intelligence is no longer just assisting developers at Spotify — in some cases, it’s effectively taken over the keyboard. During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings discussion, co-CEO Gustav Söderström revealed a striking detail: some of Spotify’s strongest engineers haven’t manually written code since December. Instead, they’ve been relying on AI systems to handle much of the heavy lifting in software development. This shift comes amid an especially productive year for the streaming giant. Over the course of 2025, Spotify introduced more than 50 updates and new features to its app. Among the most recent additions are AI-powered Prompted Playlists, Page…

A recent report has revealed that Google supplied U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with extensive personal and financial information belonging to a student journalist, following an administrative subpoena that did not receive judicial approval. The individual at the center of the case, Amandla Thomas-Johnson, is a British journalist who had been studying at Cornell University in New York. In 2024, he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest while enrolled at the university. Not long after, federal authorities reportedly sought access to details connected to his Google account. According to the findings, Google provided ICE with a broad range of data.…

Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, has reached a major milestone, crossing more than 750 million monthly active users worldwide. The figure was disclosed as part of Google’s fourth-quarter 2025 financial results and highlights how quickly the assistant has gained mainstream traction in an increasingly competitive AI landscape. Just one quarter earlier, Gemini reported around 650 million monthly users. The jump of 100 million users in such a short time signals strong momentum and growing consumer interest. While other AI platforms are also expanding, Gemini has now pulled ahead of Meta AI, which recently reported close to 500 million monthly users. That…

Amazon has officially expanded access to Alexa+, its next-generation AI assistant, making it available to users across the United States. Starting this week, all Prime members can use Alexa+ at no additional cost on supported devices. Non-Prime users can also try Alexa+ for free through the Alexa website or mobile app, though with certain usage limits. Alexa+ represents a major evolution of Amazon’s long-running voice assistant. Powered by generative AI, the new version is designed to feel more conversational and capable than earlier iterations. Instead of relying on a single AI system, Alexa+ intelligently combines Amazon’s own foundation models with…

New reporting suggests the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been quietly pressuring technology companies to reveal information about people who criticize the Trump administration or document immigration enforcement activity online. Civil liberties groups say the tactics raise serious concerns about free speech and government overreach. At the center of the controversy is DHS’s use of administrative subpoenas — a type of data demand issued directly by federal agencies, without prior approval from a judge. Unlike court-approved subpoenas, these requests do not require investigators to demonstrate probable cause. That distinction has made them controversial, especially when used against individuals…

When OpenAI released its AI-powered video app Sora last October, the launch looked like a runaway success. The app rocketed to the top of the U.S. App Store, drew massive attention on social media, and even reached major download milestones faster than ChatGPT. Just a few months later, however, the picture looks far less rosy. New market data indicates that both user growth and in-app spending are sliding as the initial buzz cools down. Sora is built on OpenAI’s Sora 2 video-generation model and debuted on iOS as an invite-only product. Despite those limitations, it attracted over 100,000 installs on…

Fintech company Marquis is placing responsibility for a major cybersecurity incident on its firewall provider, claiming that a breach at the vendor level paved the way for hackers to access sensitive customer data. According to communications recently sent to clients, Marquis believes a ransomware attack it suffered in August 2025 was made possible by an earlier security failure involving SonicWall, the firm that supplied its firewall technology. In its message to customers, Marquis explained that attackers were allegedly able to exploit confidential firewall configuration details that had been exposed during a prior compromise of SonicWall’s cloud-based backup systems. These details,…

Meta has begun charging developers to run AI-powered chatbots on WhatsApp in certain regions, starting with Italy. The decision follows regulatory intervention that forced the company to loosen its restrictions on third-party bots, even as Meta continues to push back against broader access to its messaging platform. Earlier this year, WhatsApp officially enforced a policy that blocks external AI chatbots from operating through its Business API. That ban took effect on January 15. However, Italian regulators stepped in soon after, asking Meta to pause the restriction on competition grounds. As a result, Meta created a temporary exception allowing AI bots…

The current wave of AI startups is unlike anything the tech world has seen before. Dozens of new labs are building their own foundation models, often led by famous researchers or former executives from major tech companies. Some of these teams clearly want to build massive, revenue-generating companies. Others seem perfectly content exploring ideas, publishing research, and letting investors worry about the rest. The problem? From the outside, it’s increasingly hard to tell who’s serious about making money. To make sense of this, it helps to think less about profits and more about intent. Instead of asking whether an AI…