Daily Minute Master Series
February 12, 2026
by Corey Padveen
Marketing News and Updates
Snapchat Adds AI Generated Bitmoji Option in Lens+
Snapchat’s has added a new way to create a Bitmoji character in your likeness, with Snapchat Lens+ subscribers now able to access a new Lens option that uses artificial intelligence to generate a Bitmoji character from an image.
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Threads Expands Manual Algorithm Control Option
After testing it out over the last couple of months with selected users, Threads is now rolling out its Dear Algo algorithm refinement option to all users in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and the U.K., providing a means to directly influence what types of posts users see in the app.
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Meta Kicks Off New Data Center Project in Indiana
Meta has announced that it’s breaking ground on a new 1 gigawatt data center project in Lebanon, Indiana, which Meta says “represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community,” one of its largest infrastructure investments to date.
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Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs
Facing growing backlash over energy-hungry data centers, Anthropic joins other tech companies in its promises to limit costs.
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Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger
The way forward for xAI involves four divisions: Grok, Coding, Imagine, and Macrohard.
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Google’s Ads Chief Details UCP Expansion, New AI Mode Ads
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