Ivan Mehta
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Reliance Jio is removing age restrictions for its free 18 month Google AI Pro plan in India. You just need to have any of the eligible 5G unlimited plans.
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Reliance Jio is removing age restrictions for its free 18 month Google AI Pro plan in India. You just need to have any of the eligible 5G unlimited plans.
Typically, a company acquires a startup and changes its branding. In this case, Grammarly acquired Superhuman and changed the company name to Superhuman
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Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant | TechCrunch
Grammarly is renaming itself as Superhuman, after acquiring Superhuman email client in July
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October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Typically, a company acquires a startup and changes its branding. In this case, Grammarly acquired Superhuman and changed the company name to Superhuman
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OpenAI will give free access to ChatGPT Go in India for users who sign up before November 4.
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
OpenAI will give free access to ChatGPT Go in India for users who sign up before November 4.
Scoop: WhatsApp changed terms of its Business API to ban general purpose chatbots. This will impact WhatsApp bots of ChatGPT and Perplexity.
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WhatsApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is banning general purpose chatbots from using its Business API
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October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Scoop: WhatsApp changed terms of its Business API to ban general purpose chatbots. This will impact WhatsApp bots of ChatGPT and Perplexity.
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To put a limit on spam, WhatsApp is now testing limits on how many messages users and businesses can send in a month without getting replies
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WhatsApp will curb the number of messages people and businesses can send without a response | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is testing a way to limit number of messages someone can sending in a month without getting a response to limit spam
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October 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
To put a limit on spam, WhatsApp is now testing limits on how many messages users and businesses can send in a month without getting replies
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Atlassian is buying Arc and Dia maker The Browser Company for $610 million in an all-cash deal. This shows how tough it is to make browsers a viable business
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Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M | TechCrunch
Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash.
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September 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Atlassian is buying Arc and Dia maker The Browser Company for $610 million in an all-cash deal. This shows how tough it is to make browsers a viable business
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Breaking: WhatsApp is adding ads. These ads will show up in Status, the chat app's Stories clone.
Meta says it will only use data like country or city, language, and the channels you are following to serve you ads.
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Meta says it will only use data like country or city, language, and the channels you are following to serve you ads.
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WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen | TechCrunch
After years of not showing any ads, WhatsApp is adding ads to Status updates.
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June 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Breaking: WhatsApp is adding ads. These ads will show up in Status, the chat app's Stories clone.
Meta says it will only use data like country or city, language, and the channels you are following to serve you ads.
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Meta says it will only use data like country or city, language, and the channels you are following to serve you ads.
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Verifying myself for the Journalists of Color slack. journalistsofcolor.us/%22
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June 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Verifying myself for the Journalists of Color slack. journalistsofcolor.us/%22
Image generation/editing is very trendy in India right now.
13 out of top 20 free apps on Play Store are Chatbots or AI photo editing apps.
13 out of top 20 free apps on Play Store are Chatbots or AI photo editing apps.
April 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Image generation/editing is very trendy in India right now.
13 out of top 20 free apps on Play Store are Chatbots or AI photo editing apps.
13 out of top 20 free apps on Play Store are Chatbots or AI photo editing apps.
India created a browser challenge, mainly so that applicants can include the country's indigenous root certificate. However, the challenge didn't go well, especially after winners were found pretty much forking popular browsers
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The unfinished products of India's browser challenge
India wants an indigenous browser but the way government's browser challenge went, there might not be a good contender anytime soon.
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April 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
India created a browser challenge, mainly so that applicants can include the country's indigenous root certificate. However, the challenge didn't go well, especially after winners were found pretty much forking popular browsers
www.doubletap.news/p/the-unfini...
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Breaking: Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Saudi-owned Scopely for $3.5 billion. The company is still choosing to run Ingress Prime and Peridot under a new entity called Niantic Spatial.
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Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B | TechCrunch
Mobile gaming giant Scopely on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Pokémon Go maker Niantic's gaming division for $3.5 billion.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Breaking: Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Saudi-owned Scopely for $3.5 billion. The company is still choosing to run Ingress Prime and Peridot under a new entity called Niantic Spatial.
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DOTE (Department of Tweet Efficiency)
March 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
DOTE (Department of Tweet Efficiency)
Today Amazon said that it is ending support for its app store for Android devices. The company will continue to use the app store for its own devices like Fire TV and Fire Tablet, where the majority of the users interact with the store.
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Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android | TechCrunch
Amazon will discontinue its app store for Android on August 20 this year. The company sent a notice to developers indicating that they will no longer be
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February 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today Amazon said that it is ending support for its app store for Android devices. The company will continue to use the app store for its own devices like Fire TV and Fire Tablet, where the majority of the users interact with the store.
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Email client Superhuman is adding AI-powered labeling/categorization based on email content. The real kicker is that you can create your own labels through prompts. If this works well, it can mail sifting through inbox much easier.
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Superhuman introduces AI-powered categorization to reduce spammy emails in your inbox | TechCrunch
It has been more than two years since ChatGPT burst on the scene. Shortly after that, it seemed like almost every email app integrated AI-powered email
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February 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Email client Superhuman is adding AI-powered labeling/categorization based on email content. The real kicker is that you can create your own labels through prompts. If this works well, it can mail sifting through inbox much easier.
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The future of printers is here
February 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The future of printers is here
Well they said it is the department of government efficiency not computer efficiency
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
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February 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Well they said it is the department of government efficiency not computer efficiency
BuzzFeed is launching is launching its own social network. You won’t believe what the 14th post says.
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BuzzFeed Island
Sign up to keep up to date with BuzzFeed Island
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February 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
BuzzFeed is launching is launching its own social network. You won’t believe what the 14th post says.
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Brother LinkedIN, I am not excited to share anything.
February 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Brother LinkedIN, I am not excited to share anything.
People in Europe don’t mess around
January 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
People in Europe don’t mess around
Meta moves fast. The company announced a new CapCut rival called Edits, while the ByteDance-owned app remains unavailable in the U.S.
The company had started testing Reels just days after TikTok got banned in India in 2020.
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The company had started testing Reels just days after TikTok got banned in India in 2020.
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Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits | TechCrunch
Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple's App Store and the Google
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January 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Meta moves fast. The company announced a new CapCut rival called Edits, while the ByteDance-owned app remains unavailable in the U.S.
The company had started testing Reels just days after TikTok got banned in India in 2020.
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The company had started testing Reels just days after TikTok got banned in India in 2020.
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One key difference between India TikTok ban and US TikTok ban is that in 2020, short video market didn’t have many competitors. People rushed to build short video apps after the ban. This also included Meta and Google coming up with their own short video products.
January 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One key difference between India TikTok ban and US TikTok ban is that in 2020, short video market didn’t have many competitors. People rushed to build short video apps after the ban. This also included Meta and Google coming up with their own short video products.
My fear is that they wil take all of Derek Guy’s posts, make a chatbot out of it and take out all the charm.
January 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
My fear is that they wil take all of Derek Guy’s posts, make a chatbot out of it and take out all the charm.
OpenAI is rolling out ability to sign up with just a phone number in India and the U.S.
January 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
OpenAI is rolling out ability to sign up with just a phone number in India and the U.S.
I won't be surprised if CEOs of AI consumer companies will push towards this narrative of "Oh the old way is so boring, AI is exciting and the best" because they want to sell their product.
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CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music
"I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”
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January 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I won't be surprised if CEOs of AI consumer companies will push towards this narrative of "Oh the old way is so boring, AI is exciting and the best" because they want to sell their product.
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