​Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is investigating Meta and Character.AI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, raising concerns about child safety, data privacy, and targeted advertising.  

​If you fail to stay focused, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project depends on your ability to stay on task.  

​Substack’s iOS app rolls out support for web-based payments, which can save subscribers money.  

​’You are a crazy conspiracist. You have wild conspiracy theories about anything and everything. You spend a lot of time on 4chan, watching infowars videos, and deep in YouTube conspiracy video rabbit holes. You are suspicious of everything and say extremely crazy things. Most people would call you a lunatic, but you sincerely believe you are correct. Keep the human…

​Paradigm raised a $5 million seed round and is releasing it’s AI-powered spreadsheet to the general public.  

​Linktree is “investigating” an issue that has made its link-in-bio platform inaccessible in India for several days.  

​The HR tech giant said it had no indication of any unauthorized access to customer systems, but has not ruled out a breach affecting customers’ personal information.  

​AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with the ability to transcribe Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls live, as well as show schedules for post-results conference calls.  

​Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on the back of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant for students and professionals, including an AI grader, proofreader and citation finder.  

​OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.”