Tag: WhatsApp

Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn) & Mustafa Suleyman (co-founder of Google's DeepMind) launch Inflection AI; their AI-powered text generator, Pi, provides users with emotionally intelligent conversations. Join them as they strive to make users lives more meaningful, productive & fun with the aid of AI & Hoffman's tech expertise.

WhatsApp is combating offensive behavior with unprecedented actions, having banned 4.7 million accounts in March. To ensure fairness, the Indian government has added the Grievance Appellate Committee. Preventive measures help manage complaints and make sure the wrong users are blocked, instead of innocents. Microsoft and OpenAI join forces with WhatsApp to help the engineering team code faster, for safer user experience.

WhatsApp, the secure and user-friendly instant messaging service owned by Meta, recently took action against bad accounts in India, banning over 47 lakh accounts in March. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MoS for Electronics and IT launched the Grievance Appellate Committee aiming to empower and protect digital rights of Indian users. Meta has also partnered with Microsoft and OpenAI to fasten development with coding assistant, ensuring data privacy and great user experience.

Way back, phone calls and SMS were the only options to have conversations through your phone. Both had their pros and cons but with the advent of modern-day technology, voice messages have become the favorite hybrid, merging the best of both: you can have asynchronous conversations like SMS but with the expressivity of a phone call. With Twilio SMS and OpenAI Speech to Text, you can now receive audio messages from WhatsApp and transcribe them into text. Read on to learn how!

This week was packed with tech news, from Elon Musk unintentionally exposing himself as a ‘burner’ account user to SpaceX’ launch progress and Tile’s new ‘Tile for cats’ product. Apple was victorious in the legal battle against Fortnite's maker Epic Games, and Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes got a deferred sentence. Additionally, while the ‘Transgender Center Concerns’ site was taken down, Twitter introduced a paid-for verification system, and WhatsApp launched its multidevice log in feature. Stay up to date on the latest tech with TechCrunch's flourishing coverage from live show episodes to analyst stories.