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These are the daily tech headlines for Thursday, January 15, 2026 I'm Rob Dunwood. Social media platform Axe is implementing new image editing policies, including technological measures to prevent all users from editing images of real people and revealing clothing and moving Grok AI image generation features behind a PAYW wall. These changes come after a California investigation and public concern over Grok generating inappropriate images. NX will also geographically block the generation of images of real people in minimal attire where it is illegal. Following concerns from the California Attorney General, Spotify is implementing its third U.S. price hike for premium plans since 2023 affecting subscribers in the U.S. estonia and Latvia. U.S. plan increases include individual from $11.99 to $12.99, student from $5.99 to $6.99, duo 1699 to 1899 and family from 1999 to 2199. Spotify justifies the changes, reflecting the value delivered and enabling the company to offer the best experience and benefits to artists. Despite recent feature additions like AI and lossless audio. Google is reportedly testing an integration of its Gemini AI into Chrome for Android, codenamed Glick, to bring agentic browser capabilities to mobile devices, similar to Microsoft's Copilot in Edge. Found through references in Chromium source code, the feature is expected to allow users to summarize web pages or ask contextual questions, potentially via a floating button. An official announcement is anticipated soon. AI chipmaker Cerebras has secured a $10 billion deal with OpenAI to supply 750 megawatts of computing power through 2028. This partnership will provide OpenAI with a dedicated low latency interference solution for real time AI and helps Cerebras diversify its customer base away from its prior reliance on the UAE's G42. The deal highlights CERE continued competition with rivals like Nvidia and follows the company's decision to withdraw and then plan to refile its initial public offering. After raising $1.1 billion, Tesla is discontinuing the one time purchase option for its full self driving software, making it available only through a monthly subscription, as confirmed by CEO Elon Musk. This change is intended to increase FSD adoption, which currently sits at a low of 12%, especially with a lower $99 monthly price, potentially helping Musk achieve a for his new pay package. This shift to a subscription only model may also limit the company's legal liability amidst lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny over the software's capabilities. YouTube has rolled out new parental controls for accounts for children and teens, which allows parents to set a time limit of 15 minutes to 2 hours for the YouTube Shorts feed and implement custom bedtime and take a break reminders. These updates enhance the existing Shorts time limit feature and follow previous efforts to identify and restrict minors accounts using AI age estimations. An upcoming signup page update will also let parents manually set the age category for new accounts to ensure appropriate content. Aligning with similar restriction efforts on platforms like Meta and TikTok, Google has updated the Trends Explore page with new Gemini Power capabilities on desktop to automatically identify and compare related trending topics, significantly reducing manual research time. The update features a side panel with relevant trends, connections and suggested prompts, alongside a refreshed design with dedicated colors and icons for term matching, an increase in the number of comparable terms and a doubling of displayed rising queries. This enhancement is part of Google's ongoing strategy to integrate Gemini across its major products following Australia's December 10 world's first ban on social media for children. Under 16 major platforms, including Meta, Google, TikTok, Snapchat X and others, swiftly deactivated about 4.7 million underage accounts within a month, exceeding estimates, according to the ESAFETY commissioner. This suggests high compliance to avoid fines of up to $49.5 million Australian or $33 million US though most have complied, some companies are suing. The commissioner noted that the complete age assurance implementation is ongoing, as some underage accounts still persist. And finally, Digg, the former Reddit rival, is relaunching to open beta with founders Kevin Rose and Reddit co founder Alexis Ohanian. The platform, featuring a website and app, mirrors Reddit's community browsing, posting, commenting and upvoting structure to combat toxicity they're using for advanced trust and identity verification. Users can create niche communities with public moderation logs, and the site includes a redesigned main feed and sidebar. The small team plans rapid weekly feature additions focusing on community customization and potential third party integrations to achieve product market fit. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to DailyTreeNewsHow.com, you can find show notes and links to all the headlines there as well. And if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.