European Commission Issues Preliminary Findings Over Meta's Compliance - DTH

Want to get this show ad-free? Head to DailyTechNewsShow.com slash subscribe to find out how. These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Wednesday, April 29th, 2026. I'm Sarah Lane. The European Commission issued preliminary findings in a nearly two-year investigation over Meta's compliance with the Digital Services Act, or the DSA, to prevent children under the age of 13 from using Facebook and Instagram. The commission found Meta was in breach of the law and didn't have effective measures to prevent access by under-13s, estimating about 12% of children under 13 in the EU use the platforms, but that these preliminary findings do not prejudge the final outcome of the investigation. A Meta spokesperson disagrees with the findings and says additional measures to remove underage users will roll out soon. If the final result finds Meta breached the DSA, a fine can be assessed up to 6% of global annual turnover. In 2025, Meta reported revenue of $201 billion. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is planning an overhaul of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac photo editing features using AI to compete with existing Android features The upcoming on AI tools would enable enhancing reframing and extending of images Apple existing AI photo editing tool CleanUp has been criticized since launch due to inconsistent results and for introducing artifacts German sources say the new tools will use the Apple intelligence platform in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, all launching this fall. AI-assisted programming tool Lovable is now available on iOS. As previously reported, Apple cracked down on many Vibe coding apps for not following App Store guidelines, which forbid apps from changing behavior after release. The restriction doesn't ban all Vibe coding apps from the store, just the ones that break the rules. Lovable creates web apps through natural language prompts and voice interactions, and projects can be edited on both the app and the desktop. Lovable is a free download and subscription plans range from $10 to $80 per month. Microsoft is rolling out the Copilot 365 AI Assistant to approximately 743,000 Accenture employees, making it the largest Copilot enterprise deal to date. In 2024, Accenture planned to make Copilot available to around 300,000 employees. The company claims that about 97% of staff in a report of 200,000 employees found Copilot helped them complete routine tasks 15 times faster Financial details for the agreement were not disclosed Google Translate is 20 years old and today it officially launched the pronunciation practice feature previously in beta. After translating a phrase in English, Spanish, or Hindi, a practice button becomes available. The feature provides a phonetic guide for the phrase and will judge a user's pronunciation with AI grading. The feature is currently live in the United States and India, with more regions to come. General Motors will roll out Google's Gemini Assistant for vehicles from 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles equipped with Google built-in. Approximately 4 million vehicles in the United States will be eligible for the updates. The Gemini Assistant can answer questions about travel, including multiple steps, and the standard AI Assistant tasks, like suggesting how to write a text. The rollout will proceed in phases over several months, and drivers will be notified through a message on the infotainment screen. Vehicles will need to be connected to OnStar, signed into the Google Play store, use English as the language, and opted into Gemini. Additional markets and language support is expected in the future. On Tuesday, YouTube CEO Neil Mohan announced YouTube TV will enable a fully customizable multi for subscribers A multi option was first enabled in 2023 for select sports content and eventually available for pre business news and weather programming A limited experiment went live in 2025 for users to build multi-views with non-sports channels. Now, subscribers can pin up to four streams of choice for a multi-view. And finally today, remember Vine? The six-second looping video service originally launched 13 years ago was purchased by the company then known as Twitter and then eventually shut down in 2017. A new app financed by Jack Dorsey's nonprofit and other stuff called Divine is now available on iOS, Android, and the web. Divine currently has an archive of approximately 500,000 Vine videos from the original service, and many original creators are back creating new content on the platform. New videos can only be uploaded through the app or after verification through CP2A to prove it's not AI. Divine also has an option to filter out any potential AI slop from showing up on feeds. Signups for Divine currently have a wait list unless users have an invite code. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnewsshow.com. That's where you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I'm Sarah Lane. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.