Your teen’s YouTube Shorts scrolling can now have a hard cap

YouTube now lets parents cap Shorts scrolling on supervised teen accounts, and it’s working on a zero setting that can shut the feed off. It’s a tighter, more targeted control than generic screen time.
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Google revamps Gemini’s My Stuff hub to make your creations easier to find

Google recently refreshed Gemini‘s web interface, introducing a new “My Stuff” hub to make it easier for users to find their images, videos, and other creations. Now, the company is rolling out an update for this hub that reorganizes items into two sep…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT translator challenges Google Translate
OpenAI’s ChatGPT translator challenges Google Translate

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Translate, a standalone web translation tool that supports over 50 languages and is positioned as a direct competitor to Google Translate. The two services look visually similar: both feature two text boxes – one for typing or pasting the source text and another that displays the translated results – alongside dropdown […]

Try ChatGPT Translate if you need your message rewritten, not just translated

ChatGPT Translate looks like a familiar translator, but its best trick is what happens after the translation. One-tap rewrites kick you into ChatGPT to polish tone, while big Google-style features are still missing.
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Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia Foundation announced the news as part of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary on Thursday. The partnerships are part of Wikimedia Enterprise, an initiative launched in 2021 that gives large […]

Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors
Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors

It’s been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it’s come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articles that get almost 15 billion views each month. To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation – the nonprofit that backs […]

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t
X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account’s ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported on Tuesday by The Telegraph, as Grok’s responses to prompts like “put her in a bikini” became censored. But in tests of the feature […]

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Tesla STOPS selling Full Self Driving, a sexy electric road bike, and Transformers
Tesla STOPS selling Full Self Driving, a sexy electric road bike, and Transformers

On today’s subscriber-focused episode of Quick Charge, Tesla stops selling Full Self Driving as the promise of a Tesla as an appreciating asset dies. Plus, someone’s getting a $200 million bonus and Komatsu introduces its own, IRL take on a transformin…

EVgo plans 150 fast chargers a year at Kroger stores through 2035
EVgo plans 150 fast chargers a year at Kroger stores through 2035

EVgo plans to build at least 150 DC fast-charging stalls a year through 2035 at Kroger Family of Stores locations across the US.

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Lucid (LCID) is on track to begin building EVs at full-scale at its second facility in 2026
Lucid (LCID) is on track to begin building EVs at full-scale at its second facility in 2026

After overcoming major production hurdles last year, Lucid Group (LCID) is on track to begin building vehicles at a new plant in Saudi Arabia in 2026.

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