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By bringing Reels to TV, Instagram is looking to better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space. Source

AI has brought the startup world the rise of companies that instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become. Source

An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn't launch its unwanted nudity filter until 2024. Source

The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual. Source

Nimble uses AI agents to search the web, verify and validate the results, and then clean and structure the information into neat tables that can then be queried like a database. Source

Mogul, which helps artists track royalties and value their catalogs, raised $5 million in a round led by the Yamaha Music Innovations Fund. Source

Plug-in hybrid vehicles are rarely charged, according to a new study. Why are automakers still producing them? Source

New Relic is giving enterprises more observability tools, letting them create and manage AI agents, and better integrate OTel data streams. Source

Waymo launched services today in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando. Source

The number of people affected by a data breach at government contractor giant Conduent is growing, as millions of people continue to receive notices warning them that hackers stole their personal data. Source