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Finally: Artificial Intelligence arrives on WhatsApp in a new update

Meta announced the integration of a series of new features into the WhatsApp app, including the use of artificial intelligence to suggest message phrasing and edit media files within chats.

WhatsApp users.
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WhatsApp will translate messages for you inside the chat

Anonymous chatting. The new feature.

Finally: The long-awaited WhatsApp update is coming to mobile soon

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Meta announces big news for parents: Dedicated WhatsApp account for kids with full supervision


Privacy takes a leap: The end of the phone number on WhatsApp?

Meta plans a major WhatsApp update letting users sign in with a username instead of a phone number for the first time, similar to Telegram’s long-standing model.

WhatsApp.

iPhone stays in your pocket: WhatsApp arrives on Apple smartwatches

After years of waiting, the popular messaging app WhatsApp has finally launched on Apple smartwatches – with the ability to read, reply, and send voice messages directly from your wrist.

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WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook: What are the most popular apps used in Israel in 2025?

In 2025, the Index also measured the public's use of artificial intelligence services, particularly large language models (AI chatbots), which have become widely accessible.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021

Grapevine, October 19, 2025: Remembering at the National Library

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu lights a candle alongside the memorial wall at the National Library.

Messaging service WhatsApp discovers advanced cyberespionage campaign

In a statement, WhatsApp said that fewer than 200 users worldwide had potentially been impacted.

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Russia orders state-backed app, WhatsApp rival, to be pre-installed on all phones and tablets

Russia's government is seeking greater control over the internet space.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Acting Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Region Maria Kostyuk in Moscow, Russia, August 20, 2025.

Russia starts restricting some calls on Telegram and WhatsApp, Interfax says

Russia has long sought to establish what it calls digital sovereignty by promoting home-grown services.

 An illustrative image of Telegram.

'Entire attack livestreamed on Facebook': Oct 7. victim relatives file lawsuit against Meta

Relatives of October 7 victims are suing Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, for livestreams of Hamas's massacre, broadcasting footage of their relatives' murder.

 View of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, January 16, 2025.

How animated video prescriptions are revolutionizing patient care

Israeli start-up GistMD collaborates with Mayo Clinic to deliver AI-powered, personalized video care instructions that improve patient understanding and outcomes.

 An illustrative image of a nurse writing a prescription.

Investigation exposes X, WhatsApp as hotbeds for arms trade involving Houthis, US weapons

TTP identified 130 Yemen-based X accounts that were advertising a range of weapons, including high-powered rifles, grenade launchers, and other military-grade arms.

Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, mark the annual al-Quds Day on the last Friday of Ramadan, in Sana'a, Yemen, March 28, 2025