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Spotify’s latest feature lets you add your own transitions to playlists

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Spotify is introducing a new feature that allows subscribers to create more professional, personalized playlists. On Tuesday, the company launched a custom transitions feature that lets you either automatically add transitions between a playlist’s tracks or customize your own using preset options like fade, rise, or blend, along with other options. To use the feature, […]

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Your next customer is walking the Disrupt 2025 expo floor

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 lands in San Francisco from October 27-29, and the Expo Hall is already packed with early adopters, startup scouts, and enterprise buyers looking to discover what’s next. If you’re not there to show off your product, your competitors will be — and they’ll be closing deals that could’ve been yours. There’s still

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Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children’s YouTube data

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Google will pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated children’s privacy on YouTube, per Reuters. The lawsuit alleges that Google collected data from children watching YouTube videos; while this kind of data collection has become common, it remains illegal to collect data from children under the age of 13, per

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Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

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Meta is rolling out an AI-powered voice translation feature to all users on Facebook and Instagram globally, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature, which is available in any market where Meta AI is available, allows creators to translate content into other languages so it can be viewed by a broader audience. The feature

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‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

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The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret global cabal” controls the world. TechCrunch has confirmed the system prompt exposure, first reported on by 404 Media. They include instructions for

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OpenAI launches a sub $5 ChatGPT plan in India

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OpenAI today launched a new, cheaper ChatGPT paid subscription plan in India called ChatGPT GO, priced at ₹399 per month ($4.60), which is more affordable than the ₹1,999 (about $23) per month Plus Plan. The company had turned on local currency pricing for all its plans a few days ago, and with this launch, it

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Substack writers can now direct US readers to (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions on iOS

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Newsletter subscription platform Substack will begin taking advantage of an option on the U.S. App Store that allows users to make purchases outside of Apple’s in-app purchasing system. This functionality is permitted by a change to the App Store’s rules in May, as a result of Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant. Since

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X’s declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue

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Elon Musk’s X is struggling on Android devices in terms of new installs, even while App Store downloads grow, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. In July 2025, X downloads on Google Play saw a significant decline, as new installs dropped by 44% year-over-year worldwide, even as iOS downloads grew by 15%.

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Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute

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You must stay focused. You cannot open TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever little phone games you like to play. If you fail, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project depends on your ability to stay focused. This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B

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Spotify’s latest feature lets you add your own transitions to playlists

Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children’s YouTube data

‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

OpenAI launches a sub $5 ChatGPT plan in India

Substack writers can now direct US readers to (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions on iOS

Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute

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