Zenzap raises $44M for its AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp in the workplace
Workplace messenger Zenzap raised $44 million for AI chat aimed at replacing WhatsApp at work.
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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
TechCrunch lists text-message AI agents, including Instinct, valued at $10 billion after a $1 billion round.
All the AI agents that can live in your text messages
TechCrunch surveys text-message AI agents, including Instinct, valued at $10 billion after a $1 billion round.
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents
Photon raised $4.5 million seed to let developers run agents over iMessage, WhatsApp, and other channels.
Signal brings encrypted local backups to iOS and desktop, adds cross-platform restore
Signal 8.30 brings end-to-end encrypted local backups to iOS and desktop plus cross-platform restore between Android and iPhone.
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AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience
Wabi pivots from prompt-built apps to invite-only Wabi 2.0, a messenger that builds interfaces on demand.
Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together
Ando left stealth with $20 million to build team chat where AI agents work beside humans.
SEEK: Secure and Efficient Encrypted Keyword Search For Privacy-Preserving Messaging Protocols
Researchers propose SEEK, a homomorphic-encryption plus 2PC protocol for encrypted keyword search that hides keywords while detecting matches.
WhatsApp Restricted Chat locks a conversation to your primary phone
WhatsApp is developing Restricted Chat, a per-chat setting blocking conversation sync to linked devices, defeating third-party clients and AI agents.
GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
GrapheneOS published version 13 of its rewritten Messaging app, a messaging tool from the privacy-hardened Android OS project.
Signal's new security feature checks if your encrypted chats were tampered with
Signal adds automatic key verification, a key-transparency system audited by Cloudflare and Trail of Bits that detects key-directory tampering in E2EE chats.
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