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Apple removes gay dating apps from Chinese App Store at Beijing’s request

Flag of China and LGBT rainbow flag Alxeypnferov | Istock | Getty Images Apple has confirmed that it has removed two popular gay dating apps from its Chinese iOS Store, following an order from Beijing’s main internet regulator and censorship authority. It comes following reports of the apps — Blued and Finka — suddenly disappearing … Read more

Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order

Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and several Android app stores circulated on Chinese … Read more

Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’ 

Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. She founded Replika, the first major AI companion startup, in 2017 years before ChatGPT launched. Today it has 35 million users.   Now Kuyda is back with a new startup called Wabi, which she describes as YouTube for apps – a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share … Read more

The Prompting Company snags $6.5M to help products get mentioned in ChatGPT and other AI apps

People are increasingly asking AI, not Google, to help them discover products. A recent shopping report says Americans, this holiday season, will likely turn to large language models this season to find gifts, deals, and sales instead of traditional search. Retailers could see up to a 520% increase in traffic from chatbots and AI prompts … Read more

Mem0 raises $24M from YC, Peak XV and Basis Set to build the memory layer for AI apps

Taranjeet Singh (pictured above, right) has launched six companies, with some failing and others seeing varying degrees of success. His seventh, Mem0, could be his defining one. The startup starts with the premise that large language models can’t remember past interactions the way humans do. If two people are chatting and the connection drops, they … Read more

Apple confirms it pulled controversial dating apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store

Controversial dating safety apps, Tea and TeaOnHer, have been pulled from the Apple App Store. The apps’ removal was first spotted by the app store intelligence provider Appfigures, which told TechCrunch the two apps were removed from the App Store on Tuesday in all markets but remain live on Google Play. Reached for comment, Apple … Read more

What’s Updog? Datadog’s new tool tells you which apps are down

Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog has solved an age-old joke: What’s up, dog? Datadog’s answer is not, “Not much, you?” Rather, the company launched a web dashboard that shows developers the status of dozens of services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack — essentially letting them check whether major software providers are … Read more

Meta to shut down Messenger desktop apps for Mac and Windows

Meta is shutting down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac on December 15, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Starting December 15, users will no longer be able to log into the apps and will be automatically redirected to the Facebook website to access Messenger. “If you’re using the Messenger desktop apps, … Read more

A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world 

Zehra Naqvi recalls the magical days of the early social internet.   She grew up in the One  Direction and Marvel fandoms in the early 2010s. This was back when people posted photos of lattes using the Valencia filter on Instagram, and Twitter was still Twitter, a place where people came together to exchange jokes and cultural analysis.   But now Instagram is full … Read more

Strava CEO says the $2 billion unicorn plans to go public ‘at some point’ as marathon-obsessed Gen Z swaps dating apps for run clubs

Strava, an exercise-tracking app last valued at $2.2 billion, is benefitting from Gen Z’s obsession with run clubs and marathons and is looking toward a future IPO, according to its CEO. Michael Martin, who took over as CEO in 2024 from Strava cofounder Michael Horvath, told the Financial Times the company has the “intention to … Read more

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