Snap had a good quarter, and the market treated it like a rescue. The shares jumped after hours, up as much as 13%, once the company beat estimates. The catch is where that rally begins: a stock near its all-time lows, down about 37% this year. The hea…
OpenAI has an image problem, and it just spent a weekend making it worse. The company flew a group of influencers to a luxury resort to soften how the public sees AI. The internet took one look and called it greenwashing. The event, branded “Summer Cam…
TikTok has a consistent answer to the lawsuits accusing it of harming children: settle, quietly, before a jury sees the evidence. On Monday it did so again. The company has agreed to settle three cases it was scheduled to fight in October, Reuters repo…
Myspace’s owners promise a revival, but with myriad questions about the relaunch swirling, we can reach only one likely and unfortunate conclusion.
Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO. This is one of my favorite kinds of interviews to do on Decoder, because a couple years ago, we had Bluesky’s prior CEO, Jay Graber, on […]
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ set a $309 million promotional campaign record. But the brands that paid to appear on screen tell the real story about advertising’s future.
A new poll suggests that an overwhelming majority of adults support a classroom ban on phones. TechRadar readers can make their opinion known here.
Snapchat will stop recommending fully AI generated videos on Spotlight, favoring authentic human made content instead, while still allowing AI edited videos to appear.
Meta’s answer to the “pervert glasses” problem was a small light. It switches on when the camera records, to warn anyone nearby. A sticker costing a couple of dollars switches it off. Engadget’s Karissa Bell tested the workarounds now on sale, cheap LE…
Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally anyway. At the launch of his son Flávio’s presidential bid in São Paulo on Saturday, a video avatar of the jailed former president loomed o…