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  Perplexity Bot on X Gets AI-Powered Video Generation Capability, Available to All Users

  X (formerly known as Twitter) users can now generate artificial intelligence (AI) videos using Perplexity’s chatbot on the platform. On June 19, the company announced that users can now write a prompt to generate a video when tagging “@AskPerplexity” in their posts and top-level comments. The feature is available to all X users.

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  Elon Musk Says New XChat on X Comes With Bitcoin-Style Encryption, New Features

  Elon Musk revealed on Sunday that XChat, the social media platform’s new direct messaging (DM) feature, will offer Bitcoin-style encryption. Currently available in beta on X (formerly known as Twitter), XChat is a new offering for the paid subscribers. Apart from encryption, the messaging tool will also come with vanishing messages, audio and vid...

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  WhatsApp’s Native iPad App Could See a Release Soon

  A native WhatsApp app for the iPad is said to be in the works. The Meta-owned instant messaging client appears to have teased the arrival of WhatsApp for iPad on a social media platform. For years, WhatsApp has been reported to be developing a new app that works natively on Apple’s tablet, however, it is yet to see the light of day. While a beta ...

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  X Restores Access After Thousands of Users Report X Website and App Not Working

  X (formerly Twitter) is experiencing widespread outages, including in India, with users unable to load posts or videos on both the website and mobile apps this Saturday. Reports on a popular downtime tracking website confirm the inaccessibility. While the X developer platform indicated a site-wide outage was resolved days ago, some login-related fu...

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  Vir Das Feels "Industry Has Peaked" After His Interaction With Food Delivery Agent

  Comedian Vir Das recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to post about an interaction he had with a food delivery agent who called him up to ask about a restaurant.

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  OpenAI Reportedly Working on an AI-Powered Social Media Platform

  OpenAI is reportedly working on a social media platform. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is planning to integrate AI capabilities into the social app, although details around the integration are currently not known. The platform is said to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twit...

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  Threads Reportedly Testing New Feature for Importing Social Graph, Finding Creators Followed on X

  Threads is said to be testing a new feature which aims to make it easier to import the social graph from other microblogging platforms. According to a tipster, it is currently in beta and not available to all users. The feature is expected to introduce a way through which users can easily follow the same accounts on Threads as they do on X (formerl...

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  Grok AI Chatbot Can Now Be Accessed in the Replies of Posts on X

  Grok can now be summoned in the top level replies on posts on X (formerly known as Twitter), and the chatbot will respond to users. When the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is tagged in the reply to a post, it already comes with the contextual understanding of the content, and can answer queries to even the vaguely worded prompts.

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  X Premium+ Subscription Price Reportedly Hiked Hours After Grok 3 AI Model Launch

  X Premium+ subscription, the highest subscription tier on X (formerly known as Twitter), has reportedly witnessed a price hike. As per the report, the price increase was rolled out just hours after Elon Musk’s xAI introduced the Grok 3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models. The new prices are said to be doubled to what they previously use...

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  X and Bluesky Roll Out Vertical Video Feeds as TikTok Restores Service in the US

  X (formerly Twitter) has announced a new feature for its users. It has introduced a dedicated vertical video feed, similar to Instagram's Reels or YouTube's Shorts feeds. Another social media site, Bluesky, founded by Jack Dorsey, who was incidentally one of the founding members of Twitter, also revealed a similar vertical video feed feature. Th...

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  Viral: Blinkit Sets Up Temporary Store At Maha Kumbh Mela, Internet Is Impressed

  Blinkit CEO, Albinder Dhindsa, made the announcement by sharing a post on X (formerly Twitter).

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  X Rolls Out Parody Account Labels to Prevent Impersonation, Improve Information Transparency

  X (formerly Twitter) on Friday announced the rollout of new account labels for parody or satire accounts. Labels were first introduced on the microblogging platform last year as visual indicators to help users distinguish accounts based on their type and nature. With the new ‘Parody Account’ label, the Elon Musk-owned app aims to reduce imperso...

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  Grok AI App Launched for iOS With Real-Time Information and Image Generation Features

  Grok, xAI’s native artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, was launched as a standalone iOS app on Friday. The Elon Musk-owned AI firm has been testing the app in beta for nearly a month, as per reports. The standalone app comes with all the features available on the web version of the platform. Users can generate images and ask web search-based qu...

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  X to Offer Streaming and Financial Services in 2025 With X TV and X Money, Says CEO

  X (formerly Twitter) will offer financial and streaming services in 2025, the company CEO announced on Wednesday. This move builds upon the microblogging platform’s ambitions of becoming an “everything app” and competing against other platforms such as China’s WeChat under the leadership of Elon Musk. The official also highlighted X’s eff...

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  X Premium+ Subscription Receives Significant Price Hike in India, US and Other Markets

  X (formerly Twitter) is raising the price of its premium subscription in several markets including India, the microblogging platform has announced. Its top-tier subscription, which is X Premium+, has been revised and the US is one of the markets hit the hardest by this change. In the country, the price of the subscription has gone up by almost 40 p...