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Instagram Says It’s Pulling the Mask Off AI Influencers

Effective immediately — at least in theory — Instagram is requiring profiles of fake influencers to carry an “AI-generated profile” badge directly beneath the handle and display name in the account’s main bio header.

In a blog post titled Bringing More Transparency to AI-Generated Profiles on Instagram, the Meta-owned social network said Monday that the goal is for viewers to know they’re seeing an AI-generated profile rather than a human one. Previously, some of these accounts carried an AI creator label, which could easily be mistaken for a human who uses AI to create content.

An AI-generated profile label is also supposed to appear on the AI influencer’s individual Feed posts, Reels and Story overlays. Instagram said that AI profiles that don’t implement the label will have their accounts forcibly demoted, meaning posts would be restricted from being recommended to non-followers until the creator adds the label. Those restrictions...

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Oslo doesn’t need fast chargers everywhere, and it proves it daily

Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU’s own right to plug sits in Article 14(8) of the recast

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Windows 11 adds toggles to remove Bing results and Store suggestions from Search

Windows 11 is rolling out toggles that remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions from Search, in an optional August update that is being released gradually. Microsoft removed Bing from the Windows Search pane for users in the European Economic Area to meet the Digital Markets Act deadline of

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A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya

Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a clinic with no electricity. The vehicle is returning to the Netherlands

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TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most

A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong AI knowledge expect AI could soon take over their work, a higher share than among those who understand it less. Only 15% of respondents have had any AI

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Oslo doesn’t need fast chargers everywhere, and it proves it daily

Windows 11 adds toggles to remove Bing results and Store suggestions from Search

A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya

TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most