Anthropic’s Claude hits No. 1 on Apple’s top free apps list

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In this illustration, the Claude AI app is seen in the app store on a phone on February 16, 2026 in New York City. According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, the Defense Department used Anthropic’s Claude Ai, via its Palantir contract, to help with the attack on Venezuela and capture former President Nicolás […]


US, China near TikTok deal to finally resolve the question of app’s ‘secret sauce’ algorithm: sources

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The US and China are closing in on a deal to avoid a US ban of TikTok – and it will include China allowing US techies to replicate and replace the wildly popular app’s secret-sauce recommendation algorithm, On The Money has learned. Top White House officials confirmed on Monday they’ve settled on a “framework” for […]


Pakistan’s cybercrime agency lists illegal gambling and trading apps

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Pakistan’s cybercrime agency has released a list of gambling entities, trading platforms, and apps that it considers illegal entities. The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has compiled the forty-six named applications, sites, and platforms as it believes they are a risk to users and their data. NCCIA publishes a list of banned operators Aviator […]


Pony.ai teams up with Tencent for robotaxi services on WeChat, other apps

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A Pony.ai autonomous car. Pony.ai Chinese start-up Pony.ai said Friday it will develop autonomous driving technology in partnership with Tencent Cloud and offer robotaxi services on tech giant Tencent’s WeChat and other applications. The Nasdaq-listed company which specializes in autonomous vehicle technology, particularly robotaxis and robotrucks, said in a press release that the deal will […]


Texas becomes first state to ban DeepSeek, Rednote on government devices after fury over China-backed apps

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order banning the contested artificial intelligence app DeepSeek and the popular TikTok alternative RedNote from government-issued devices, becoming the first state to block the Chinese apps. The governor’s issue also prohibited Lemon8, another social media app owned by TikTok’s Chinese parent company Bytedance, which many turned to on the […]


A Book App’s AI Called Its Users Too “Woke”

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First thing’s first: let me clarify that my use of “woke” in the title refers to how a certain subset of the population incorrectly defines “woke,” and that the term as we know it today originally came into use in the Black American community in the ’60s. Read more about that here. Now for this […]