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WhatsApp has introduced optional parental controls that let parents and teenagers agree on privacy settings, receive updates about group activity and choose how teens use Meta AI, Channels and Status. The controls are designed to support conversations about online safety while keeping personal messages and calls protected by end-to-end encryption. The announcement follows WhatsApp’s parent-managed accounts for preteens, which are now available in Singapore.

AGIBOT has put more than 300 humanoid robots on regular daily duty at Chimelong's Spaceship Park in Zhuhai, in southern China. The company says the machines now cover seven kinds of work at more than 100 interaction points across the park and its hotel. That range runs from entertainment shows and science education to guidance and way finding, service and retail stations, companion tours, hotel duties, and sports competitions staged for guests.

DeepSeek has released a v0.2 preview of Harness, its open source agent application, with official desktop installers for macOS on Apple silicon and for 64 bit Windows. The packages come from the official Harness website and mark the first time the company has offered ready made downloads instead of asking users to build the tool themselves. Version 0.1 of Harness arrived as a developer preview.