Daily Minute Master Series
July 16, 2025

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

Facebook Moves To Restrict the Reach of Unoriginal Content

Facebook has announced a new algorithm update which will focus on demoting “unoriginal” content, in order to boost material from original creators.

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xAI Launches AI Companions That Can Engage in NSFW Chats

xAI has launched a new animated companion option, which enables users to interact with a flirty anime character, a misbehaving panda, or another type of digital character, with more set to be launched in future.

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Threads Tests Option to Sign-Up for an Account by Using Your Facebook Profile

As it continues to work on new ways to grow the Threads userbase, Meta’s testing a new option that enables users to sign-up to the app by using their Facebook profile, instead of cross-linking their IG account.

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Reddit Launches New Age Checking Requirements in the UK

Reddit has announced that it will begin verifying user ages in the U.K. before enabling access to restricted subreddits, in line with evolving U.K. laws, which could also expand to other regions.

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Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen

Microsoft is rolling out an update to Copilot Vision for Windows Insiders that lets the AI tool see everything that’s on your screen. Previously, the tool was able to look at two apps at a time and connect the dots between the two, but with this change, it can look at your whole desktop or “any specific browser or app window,” Microsoft says.

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Google’s Discover page now summarizes news with AI

Google is rolling out AI-generated summaries directly within Discover, its personalized news feed nestled within the Google Search app. TechCrunch reports that some users in the US are seeing Discover cards on iOS and Android that provide the new summaries in place of a headline and logo from a single publisher, similar to how AI Overviews appear at the top of results in Search. It acts to further obscure news sources at a time when search traffic to publishers is disappearing.

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