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Instagram teen accounts with automatic protections on who can contact teenagers and the content they can see.

Instagram teen accounts have contact limits on by default, so teenagers get messages from people they know, not strangers, and default content settings.

Plus, teenagers under 16 can't change these default settings without parental approval.

So parents can help teenagers connect safely.

Learn more at Instagram.com slash teen accounts.

A Google engineer has been charged with insider trading after making $1.2 million

on Polly Market. I'm Imran Shake and your Friday Daily Crunch starts right now. with insider trading after making $1.2 million on Polymarket.

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On Thursday, the AI startup Sesame, co-founded by Oculus's founders and others from the VR company

that sold to Meta, released a public preview of the conversational AI agents it's been developing for over a year.

Now, with its new iOS app, Sesame is rethinking the traditional AI chatbot experience,

popularized by apps like ChatGPT, creating one where conversation flows, even if the AI needs

time to think. You see, as the company explains in its launch

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