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Sarah Perez
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Google and Match Group reach settlement in app store antitrust case: Plex becomes a social network with public debut of ‘Discover Together’ Pebble, the Twitter alternative previously known as T2, is shutting down: Product Hunt cleans house with layoffs impacting 60% of staff: Instagram co-founders’ app Artifact now let you discover recommended places, too: Amazon adds social shopping features, including a way to ask friends for product feedback: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/19/amazon-adds-social-shopping-features-including-a-way-to-ask-friends-for-product-feedback/ Anti-ChatGPT app Superfy uses AI to match people for live chats and answers to queries: Reddit may have killed Apollo, but the developer’s Pixel Pals app has hit ~50K subscribers: X plans to use payment, phone and ID verification to stop bots, in addition to the new $1/yr fee: One year post-acquisition, X traffic and monthly active users are in decline, report claims: X’s new plan to lure subscribers? Partnering with Paris Hilton on a custom icon: Instagram head says Threads’ blocking of ‘covid’ and related terms is temporary, to lift in ‘weeks or months’: YouTube gets new AI-powered ads that let brands target special cultural moments: Mac users are embracing AI apps, study finds, with 42% using AI apps daily: ByteDance’s video editor CapCut targets businesses with AI ad scripts and AI-generated presenters: Netflix’s cloud gaming service begins tests in U.S.: After delays, X updates Community Notes fact-checks to improve speed and distribution: Bluesky gets its first third-party mobile app with Graysky, now available for pre-order: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/12/bluesky-gets-its-first-third-party-mobile-app-with-graysky-launching-later-this-month/ Google’s AI-powered search experience can now generate images, write drafts: Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other: