Jon Porter

Instagram will soon automatically filter follow requests from suspected spam or bot accounts into a separate inbox. You can manually approve any that you think are authentic, and bulk delete the rest, including existing followers that Instagram thinks might be inauthentic. The feature is rolling out over the coming weeks alongside an option to bulk delete spammy tags, and new in-app nudges that’ll let you know when your posts go against Instagram’s guidelines.

Samsung Display has started mass production of two new QD-OLED panels: one 31.5-inch with a 4K resolution, and one 27-incher with 1440p resolution and an impressive 360Hz refresh rate. Samsung Display just makes the panels, however, Dell and MSI are releasing the monitors equipped with them. Presumably Samsung Electronics won’t be far behind.

Somehow it had never occurred to me that despite collaborating with some of the biggest franchises in the world, Fortnite has never featured Nintendo’s characters. “Nintendo has their strategy and we have our strategy, and we hope at some point” to use their characters, Epic’s head of Fortnite’s ecosystem, Saxs Persson, told Axios last week. “Our players would love it.”

It’s hard to overstate Wendy’s satisfaction with its FreshAI chatbot, which it’s currently using to take drive-thru orders at four restaurants in Columbus, OH. In an update, the company says the generative AI system can takes orders without the need for employee intervention 86 percent of the time, and in one location is 22 seconds faster than average. Franchisees will be able to pilot the AI next year.

Code was spotted in Spotify’s iOS app suggesting the service might re-enable in-app payments, but the company says they’re not coming back.