Arsenal teammates Declan Rice (England) and Martin Ødegaard (Norway) face off in a World Cup quarter-final. Both leaders in their prime, born just 28 days apart, will put their mutual respect aside for the crucial match in Miami.
Bluesky has introduced group chat functionality, allowing up to 50 users to interact privately. This feature aims to enhance community focus and compete with rivals like X, which recently launched its own chat app.
TikTok announced a new Campus Hub feature enabling verified college students to join exclusive group chats with up to 300 classmates and access personalized feeds featuring content from their university community. The feature, available across more than 6,000 universities through partnership with student verification platform UNiDAYS, aims to keep students connected during summer break and potentially compete with platforms like Discord and Facebook Messenger for everyday school communications.
Shapes, a group chat app where AI characters interact alongside humans, has launched with $8M seed funding. Founded in 2022 by Anushk Mittal and Noorie Dhingra, the app has over 400,000 monthly active users and 3 million user-created AI "Shapes." The startup aims to address "AI Psychosis" concerns by integrating AI into communal conversations rather than isolated one-on-one interactions.
