Study: in South Korea, users with active YouTube accounts spent 210 minutes/day on the service in Q4, while Netflix subs spent 96 minutes/day on the streamer (Max Goldbart/Deadline)

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Study: in South Korea, users with active YouTube accounts spent 210 minutes/day on the service in Q4, while Netflix subs spent 96 minutes/day on the streamer  —  Koreans who subscribe to Netflix spent less than half that time (96 minutes) watching the streamer, which airs Korean hits like Squid Game, Love Next Door and Queen of Tears.

Docusign unveils AI contract agents, which can analyze agreements and surface issues that usually require human intervention, available by the end of 2025 (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Docusign unveils AI contract agents, which can analyze agreements and surface issues that usually require human intervention, available by the end of 2025  —  Docusign launched AI contract agents, which will analyze agreements, highlight risks and surface issues that usually require human intervention.

xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses  —  Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.

Sources: Perplexity is in discussions to integrate its AI assistant on Samsung’s devices and has reached an agreement to preload Perplexity on Motorola’s phones (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Perplexity is in discussions to integrate its AI assistant on Samsung’s devices and has reached an agreement to preload Perplexity on Motorola’s phones  —  Perplexity AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup vying with Google and OpenAI, is ramping up efforts to get prime placement for its virtual assistant on smartphones.

Discord requires some UK and Australian users to verify their age by scanning their face or ID to access sensitive material; Discord says it’s “an experiment” (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)

Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle:
Discord requires some UK and Australian users to verify their age by scanning their face or ID to access sensitive material; Discord says it’s “an experiment”  —  THE COMPANY SAYS THE AGE VERIFICATION FEATURE IS “AN EXPERIMENT”  —  Discord has added a new age verification system …