Meta announced an agreement with 52 U.S. attorneys general on protections for teen users; according to the company, pending court approval, Instagram and Facebook will add a default two-hour daily limit, overnight app blocks, muted school-hour notifications and stronger parental controls.about.fb.com ↗
Cloudflare added app-scoped API tokens for Flagship. According to the company, tokens can now grant Evaluate, Read or Write access only to selected Flagship apps instead of every app in an account, reducing permission scope for trusted server-side environments such as CI pipelines, Wrangler and backend services.
AWS signed a definitive agreement to acquire Amsterdam-based DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB. According to the company, the team will join AWS and the founders will keep leading its technical direction, while the DuckDB open-source project remains independent under the DuckDB Foundation and MIT license.aboutamazon.com ↗
Vercel added asynchronous video generation to AI Gateway. According to the company, developers can start long-running generation jobs and receive results through webhooks or status checks; with the Workflow SDK, a run can suspend while the video renders and resume on completion, avoiding unnecessary compute while waiting.vercel.com ↗
OpenAI introduced an Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex. According to the company, administrators can review usage and credits, manage members and groups, control access and spending limits, and automate recurring administrative workflows from one conversation while preserving existing roles, permissions and approval controls.openai.com ↗
OpenAI shared a customer case showing how loveholidays expanded Codex use across the company. According to the company, AI-assisted code changes rose from 7% to 79% in a year, AI-assisted deployment frequency increased 73% without adding engineers, and Data Platform change success improved from 58% to 93%.openai.com ↗
IBM completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, bringing quantum computing, sensing, materials science and advanced-technology expertise under one roof. According to the company, the deal is intended to accelerate future quantum systems and strengthen capabilities spanning fundamental research through commercialization.newsroom.ibm.com ↗