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TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Side Events schedule: Women in Tech, SignalFire, Llama Lounge, and more to host
With TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 right around the corner, we’re thrilled to introduce the companies hosting Side Events that will extend the buzz and excitement to the thousands of attendees and Silicon Valley locals alike.
Whether it’s a fun happy hour, insightful panels, or energizing morning runs, Disrupt Week — happening from October 26 to November 1 — offers an exciting array of Side Events organized by a diverse group of participating companies.
Side Event guidelines and disclaimers
- Registering/RSVPing to a Side Event does not grant you access/ticket/badge to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, taking place October 28-30.
- Each event is organized and operated solely by a host (not Yahoo or any of its affiliates or brands, including TechCrunch).
- Attendance is 18+ minimum and some venues are 21+ only.
- Side Events are open to the public unless specified.
- Please register/RSVP for any of the Side Events you want to attend.
Disrupt 2024 Side Events schedule
Mixer for AI Startup Founders and Investors, 10 AI Startups on Demo Floor
Hosted By: Llama Lounge: The AI Startup Event Series
Time: October 28, 2024, 5:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: Llama Lounge is one of the longest-running AI startup event series in San Francisco. Ten AI startups will be on the demo floor, where you’ll hear remarks from the hosts. Hundreds of AI founders and VCs will be present. Come network with the long-running SF AI community at this exclusive event partnered with Disrupt. Organized by Jeremiah Owyang, speaker at Disrupt.
Accelerate Product Delivery Using Generative AI and Smart Contracts
Hosted By: Rezoomex
Time: October 28, 2024, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: What’s one of the biggest hurdles for visionary organizations aiming to bring their ideas to market? It’s turning those big ideas into something INVEST’able — Independent, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable. Successful organizations delight users, clients, and stakeholders by embracing Agile values, principles, and practices. They align their teams to transform visions into reality. This innovative workshop is designed for anyone eager to turn their ideas into reality. Attendees will engage in hands-on exercises with Rezoomex’s AI assistants. Learn to break down big ideas into smaller, manageable pieces for your teams to understand, deliver, and validate.
Happy Hour with Women Founders Bay!
Hosted By: Women Founders Bay
Time: October 30, 2024, 5:30–8:30 p.m.
Description: Join us for Women Founders Bay Happy Hour at Novela! We will have a selection of food and drinks as well as activities for the group! Some fun surprises and giveaways as well.
Women Tech Meetup + Panel Discussion
Hosted By: Women in Tech
Time: October 28, 2024, 5:30–8:30 p.m.
Description: San Francisco! Calling all women in tech, allies, friends, and partners!
Join our Women Tech Meetup + Panel — an incredible gathering of women in technology, female founders, entrepreneurs, community builders, and other professionals! Enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks, engaging conversations, networking, and a beautiful venue. Additionally, we will host a panel discussion on fundraising, venture capital, and the challenges that founders face on their journey to building successful companies, along with strategies to overcome them. We highly encourage you to bring a friend, co-worker, or ally with you!
USF Downtown TechCrunch Tech Brunch
Hosted By: USF Startup Club
Time: October 26, 2024, 3:30 – 6:30 pm
Description: USF Startup Club + MS Entrepreneurship & Innovation program will be hosting a brunch on campus, including our graduate students, alumni, Silicon Valley operators, and investors.
Opening Disrupt with Sweat & Sparks: BeActive SF
Hosted By: Flamme AI — The Couples App
Time: October 27, 2024, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Description: Kick off TechCrunch Disrupt with a healthy start — a fun social workout! Come connect with some of the best founders and investors while sweating out the weekend’s indulgences. Hosted by Ankit Nayal (ex-bodybuilder, founder of Flamme.app). Difficulty level: Beginner/Intermediate
Hack the Climate with Climate Quest
Hosted By: Climate Quest
Time: October 27, 2024, 12:00–6:00 p.m.
Description: An afternoon of collaborative climate action — addressing carbon capture storage, circular economy, clean energy transition, and climate finance. Hosted by a climate founder and angel investor.
Founders & Investors Run
Hosted By: AQ22
Time: October 29, 2024, 7:30–8:30 a.m.
Description: Start your morning off right with a fun networking run designed for founders, investors, and innovators. Whether you’re looking to talk about your next big idea, secure an investment, or simply get some fresh air with like-minded professionals, this is your sign to register. Expect a casual, friendly atmosphere — no pitch decks required! But have your elevator pitch ready (in case of an interested investor).
Making Money in the Energy Transition
Hosted By: DNV Ventures
Time: October 28, 2024, 4:00–7:30 p.m.
Description: Join us for the launch of DNV Ventures’ Energy Transition Outlook, an invite-only networking event tailored to corporate venture capitalists and VCs. This event will showcase DNV ventures and its portfolio companies around a dynamic panel on the business opportunity that the energy transition represents. Connect with industry leaders and gain insights into the future of the energy transition.
HardTech After Party @Studio 55
Hosted By: Andrews Cooper
Time: October 29, 2024, 5:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: Come connect with other attendees from TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 at the HardTech After Party hosted by Studio 45, Andrews Cooper, and informal! We will have food, drinks, and music.
Speak Easy Happy Hour
Hosted By: BrainCloud
Time: October 29, 2024, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Description: Speak Easy with BrainCloud at our Hosted Happy Hour. In addition to talent services, BrainCloud supports startups with all kinds of free resources and the free resources of the day are bar bites and drinks! The Pawn Shop is — wait for it — a pawnshop up front, but it’s a swanky speakeasy and tapas bar in the back. So come speak easy with fellow startup folks on Tuesday — just down the street from where Disrupt 2024 will be at Moscone West!
Pop Up Bubbl Lounge — The Future of Smart Startup Travel. Connecting Entrepreneurs to Build Authentic Networks on the Road
Hosted By: Bubbl
Time: October 29, 2024, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Description: Shared Travel, Shared Success: Connecting Entrepreneurs Through Smart Accommodation! Join us for a Happy Hour and short panel discussion on how shared travel experiences foster connections, optimize costs, and create business opportunities. Hear from travel tech innovators and entrepreneurs on leveraging platforms like Bubbl to simplify group travel, reduce expenses, and enhance networking at events. Expect insightful stories, practical tips, an audience Q&A, and exclusive offers for group stays at future conferences. Plus, one attendee will win a free Bubbl experience for a future tech conference within our portfolio! Transform how you travel and connect.
Semiconductors and AI for Climate Startup Cup — Finalists Announcement and Reception
Hosted By: Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC)
Time: October 28, 2024, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Description: Join us for an exclusive gathering as we propel climate tech innovation forward. This event is dedicated to promoting technologies that reduce emissions, enhance energy efficiency, and minimize waste, all while fostering clean energy and sustainable practices. The event will feature remarks from XTC co-founders Young Sohn and Bill Tai, rapid pitches from the Top 30 XTC Startup Cup Semifinalist, and a networking reception with 200+ corporates, VCs, founders, ecosystem builders, and public sector stakeholders.
Gaming, Film & Interactive Media Tech Terrace Investors & Networking Party Overlooking San Francisco Bay
Hosted By: Love Soul AI
Time: October 29, 2024, 5:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: Gaming, Film & Interactive Media Tech Terrace Investors & Networking Party Overlooking San Francisco Bay
Happy Hour with McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Hosted By: McDermott Will & Emery
Time: October 29, 2024, 5:00–8:00 p.m.
Description: Join us for an exclusive cocktail reception designed to bring together dynamic startup players, venture capitalists, and lawyers from McDermott’s capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, and venture capital practices. You’ll enjoy a relaxed atmosphere and invaluable networking opportunities against the beautiful backdrop of San Francisco Bay.
『MELT』150+ Founders x Investors Dynamic Network
Hosted By: MELT
Time: October 28, 2024, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Description: We’re bringing together 150 top 1% of founders, from pre-seed to Series D, along with active VCs and angel investors.
Pitch&Drink with P2S.VC
Hosted By: Pre-seed to Succeed (AltaIR Capital, Yellow Rocks!, Smart Partnership Capital, I2BF Global Ventures)
Time: October 28, 2024, 5:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: Calling all founders looking for investment opportunities to Pitch&Drink with P2S.vc! Connect with a community of like-minded individuals and VCs and gain insights into your next fundraising venture in a relaxed and fun environment.
Event Format: Venture (founders and investors) speed dating. Founders will have 2 to 3 minutes to present their elevator pitch (no presentation) directly to the investors, followed by a 6- to 7-minute Q&A session. After 10 minutes, the gong sounds and the founders change their places.
Startup Grind Happy Hour with Microsoft for Startups & DuploCloud
Hosted By: Startup Grind
Time: October 28, 2024, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Description: Startup Grind understands how exciting the first day of a big startup conference is. Just a breezy 5-minute walk from TechCrunch in the heart of SF, our stunning happy hour venue awaits. Unwind, mingle with fellow founders, and enjoy a well-earned beer or glass of wine, plus some tasty finger food. See you there!
Meetup with『Shinhan Square Bridge』(S²Bridge) Startups
Hosted By: SWITH
Time: October 29, 2024, 5:00–8:00 p.m.
Description: Beyond the main stage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, join us for a night of pitching and networking with deep tech Korean startups. Connect and discover where ideas spark! Meet and mingle with 8 startups of the event. Food and drinks on SWITH. RSVP only.
Investor Talks by w.tech
Hosted By: w.tech
Time: October 28, 2024, 5:00–8:00 p.m.
Description: We are planning to dive deep into the world of tech funding, featuring leading voices in the industry. Hosted by the dynamic Wtech team, this is more than just a meetup — it’s a rare opportunity to connect with top women in tech. Expect insightful panel discussions, inspiring success stories, and invaluable networking opportunities with key players in the tech world.
A Well Tech Terrace Party! Hosted by Well Now! & Love Soul AI
Hosted By: Well Now! & Love Soul AI
Time: October 28, 2024, 5:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: Health tech and wellness tech, investors, and networking party on the terrace overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
Operationalizing Success: A Panel on Scaling Startups + Happy Hour
Hosted By: Presence
Time: October 29, 2024, 5:30–8:30 p.m.
Description: Join us for Operationalizing Success: A Panel on Scaling Startups + Happy Hour, where you’ll gain actionable insights for turning strategy and big ideas into market capture and growth. Top women executives will share real stories of how they turned startup challenges into scalable solutions. Enjoy an open bar and hors d’oeuvres, and mingle with an exclusive guest list of approved tech executives. It’s an evening of high-level learning, strategic networking, and connecting with industry peers — all in a relaxed, collaborative setting.
Happy Hour Launch Party with Vently
Hosted By: Vently
Time: October 29, 2024, 5:30–8:30 p.m.
Description: Wine tasting happy hour with the Vently team! Join us as we gear up to launch our social network for events app for an evening full of networking, socializing, and getting exclusive previews of our app! Raffles and giveaways are included.
Immigrant Founders Networking
Hosted By: OpenSphere
Time: October 29, 2024, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: Get ready to network and meet vetted immigrant founders, investors, and operators at Immigrant Founders Networking hosted by Young Entrepreneurs Hub, OpenSphere, and Qlay. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a fellow founder, or just curious about the future of the Immigrant Founder ecosystem, this is the place to be. Immigrant Founder? Apply to pitch.
SF Founders-Investors Social
Hosted By: Pilot
Time: October 29, 2024, 6:00–9:30 p.m.
Description: Come socialize with fellow founders and investors for a casual event to bring tech founders and investors together. No overt pitching or selling allowed — just fun conversation and genuine connection. Why come? Find your next investment or investor, make friends and future referrers or partners, and have fun and enjoy a night off.
Meet the Media
Hosted By: Zebra Public Relations
Time: October 29, 2024, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: Begin your evening with a private networking session for reporters and VIP guests. Enjoy the intimate atmosphere and make meaningful connections. Engage in our interactive “Business Card Bingo” during the general networking session, making it fun and easy to meet potential collaborators. Panel discussion — “What the Media Wants”: Gain insider knowledge from our esteemed panel of journalists, including a leading business magazine journalist, a top online tech publication reporter, a prominent lifestyle editor, and a freelance writer specializing in entrepreneurial stories.
Speed Networking with Germ Network x Citizens
Hosted By: Germ Network
Time: October 28, 2024, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Description: Conferences get packed, but connecting stays hard. Meet other founders, funders, and conference attendees at Germ Network x Citizens’ evening of mingling, including an hour of speed networking to help you find your people. We’ll have pitchers ready at 6:30, speed networking kicks off at 7! Come join us if you’re working on privacy, security, the future of communications, or healthier social media.
SignalFire’s Disrupt Penthouse After-Party
Hosted By: SignalFire
Time: October 29, 2024, 8:00–11:00 p.m.
Description: After TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, join top-ranked founders and builders for a private, official after-party at one of San Francisco’s premier penthouses. Hosted by former TechCrunch editor-at-large and current SignalFire VC, Josh Constine. Come meet fellow founders, AI researchers, and investors while enjoying live musical performances, craft cocktails, delicious food, and special activations in a multistory penthouse and heated rooftop decorated by Restoration Hardware.
Construction Tech Happy Hour
Hosted By: Brick & Mortar Ventures
Time: October 30, 2024, 5:30–7:00 p.m.
Description: Calling all founders, investors, operators, and individuals interested in construction tech! Join us for a happy hour to mingle with peers in the construction tech space. This event is hosted by Brick & Mortar Ventures, the first sector-focused venture capital firm focusing on the construction industry. Our portfolio exits include PlanGrid, Building Connected, Fieldwire and Levelset.
Founder Friends SF
Hosted By: Hustle Fund
Time: October 30, 2024, 6:00–8:30 p.m.
Description: Founder Friends is a fireside chat and networking event where we gather 100-400 founders to connect over pizza and non-alcoholic beverages to hear from a notable founder who has been through the wringer and come out the other side. This event will feature Eric Bahn, GP and co-founder at Hustle Fund, and Yin Wu, CEO and founder of Pulley. Founder Friends does a great job of promoting an intimate gathering focused on honest conversations, with a mainly founder and VC audience, including enthusiasts and experienced entrepreneurs.
Slovak PRO Happy Hour
Hosted By: Slovak PRO
Time: October 30, 2024, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Description: Silicon Valley meeting the most interesting startups from Slovakia and Europe.
Founders Fright Fest
Hosted By: Fondo
Time: October 31, 2024, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Description: Calling all brave founders and startups! Join Fondo for a ghoulishly good time at TechCrunch Disrupt’s spookiest side event — Founders Fright Fest. Sip, snack, and swap “frightening” stories that will send shivers down your spine: from the terror of missing tax deadlines to haunting missed tax credits, and the bone-chilling horror of inaccurate books. No need to face these nightmares alone! The Fondo team will be there to share how to turn those fears into distant memories. Costumes are optional, but getting your financials in order? Absolutely necessary! Don’t miss this chance to mix, mingle, and banish your startup’s accounting and bookkeeping nightmares!
AI & Robotics Beekeeping Class + Sustainability Mixer with Beewise
Hosted By: Beewise
Time: October 31, 2024, 9:00–11:00 a.m.
Description: Join Beewise for an in-person beekeeping class featuring our AI and robotics-powered beehive, the BeeHome™. Attendees will meet the bees up close in an urban garden and learn how technology can help reduce colony losses by more than 70%. Connect with other sustainability and green tech leaders over light refreshments and a tasting featuring BeeHome™ honey.
Bootstrappers Breakfast: TechCrunch Disrupt Special Edition
Hosted By: Bootstrappers Breakfast
Time: October 31, 2024, 9:00–11:00 a.m.
Description: Come join entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast®. At a Bootstrappers Breakfast®, we have serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow and organic profit. This is for founders who are actively bootstrapping a startup. The other attendees will all be in startups. It will be a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. Now in our 14th year in Silicon Valley.
Creative Tech for Future Products: Panel & Happy Hour
Hosted By: JETRO, in collaboration with Japan Innovation Campus, AlchemistX, and Digital Garage
Time: October 30, 2024, 5:00–8:00 p.m.
Description: Explore the intersection of technology, art, and innovation with industry leaders. Meet our panel of experts in design thinking, food engineering, space tech, sustainable materials, museum tech, AI, and more.
Key discussion topics:
- Emerging technologies driving future products
- The role of creativity in tech-driven innovation
- How companies are leveraging tech to create more sustainable, user-centric products
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Light made a flip phone — it’s colorful and it’s cheap
Kaiwei Tang helped create the iconic Motorola Razr over 20 years ago. Now, 10 years into building Light, the startup behind the minimalist smartphone alternative Light Phone, he’s as surprised as anyone that his customers are begging for a flip phone.
“We’ve been interviewing young people that use flip phones for a few years,” Tang told TechCrunch, describing a pattern his team kept running into: Gen Z users love their flip phones but say the build quality is bad. “They’re describing the flip phones in negative language, but they stick with it, and they feel proud.”
So Tang and co-founder Joe Hollier had an idea. What if Light took the fast, custom software from its last three touch screen phones and put it into a flip phone? That’s how they decided to build the Light Flip, the most affordable device that Light has ever released.
“What we’re doing is offering the same Light Phone experience, the same Light Phone OS with our SDK developer program, all of the tools we already have today: alarm, calculator, calendar,” Hollier told TechCrunch. “It’s kind of the exact same experience, just one is fully tactile, no touch screen, and [the other] one is a complete touch screen experience.”
Pricing has always been Light’s hardest problem as a small hardware startup. How do you sell a “less” phone for a price people will actually pay, when the whole pitch is fewer features? Its previous release, the unlocked Light Phone III, retails at $799. But the Light Flip brings the cost down to $299 by foregoing a touch screen, NFC reader, and selfie camera. The Light Flip is also made of plastic, rather than sturdier aluminum, but that means that for the first time, Light can offer one of its phones in a range of colors: black, red, yellow, pink, navy blue, and light gray.
“I thought I was fully QWERTY, but I was having fun with the T9 predictive texting [the old-school method of typing multiple letters per number], so I can see myself going flip phone also for the colors,” Hollier said. “Just having a yellow phone gets me so jazzed.”
Beyond the sticker price, Light is also testing a financing play. It recently piloted phone contracts with Andrew Yang’s anti-doomscrolling carrier Noble Mobile. With Light’s own service plan, customers can get the Light Flip for a two-year contract at $39 per month; the Light Phone III will be available for $59 per month over the same time frame.
The Light Flip only has a 2.8″ OLED screen on the inside and no screen on the outside, as requested by users. There will be a small light on the front of the phone, however, so that you can see if you have notifications without flipping open the device. With 5G and 4G LTE connectivity, the Light Flip can download podcasts online and play music that you upload to your phone, which you can listen to via either a 3.5 mm headphone jack or Bluetooth headphones. It charges via USB-C, works with both eSIM and physical Nano SIM cards, and includes a 12-megapixel camera on the back.
The Light Flip is expected to ship in April 2027, which Light acknowledges is a long lead time. To keep preorder customers engaged (and, practically, to keep them from canceling before it ships), the company is launching a new “Flip Your Life” program, including bi-weekly newsletters to help people prepare for the lifestyle adjustment of ditching a smartphone. It’s a community-building move as much as a marketing one. By building a support network around the phone, Light hopes that the transition to using its products will be less jarring and that it sticks.
While Light believes that its phones can help people reclaim the time they may regret spending on mindless scrolling, the founders acknowledge that it’s not easy to quit smartphones cold turkey. It’s hard to sacrifice the convenience of instant internet access, Apple Pay, music streaming, and convenient communication tools like WhatsApp and iMessage, and it’s easier for the flip phone-curious to make this transition when they’re not going through it alone.
“I think something that’s so inspiring about this movement is it’s not coming from a place of just anger and hatred … It’s a movement of optimism, as well as skepticism,” Hollier said. “I think that’s what we’ve always tried to do with Light. We’re anti Big Tech in all these ways, but we’re always trying to show that the other side of life can be really simple and beautiful.”
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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. would examine open source models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft is established.
“We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models coming and threatening the large language models in the U.S.,” Bessent said on Fox Business Tuesday. “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft. If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them because of this theft.”
Bessent’s comments were first reported by Bloomberg.
The statement comes as Chinese models — most recently Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 — are gaining in capabilities and popularity, threatening to harm the business models of top American AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as their abilities to raise more capital to continue developing frontier models.
On Monday, Axios reported that the Trump administration is considering a wholesale ban on Chinese open source models, although others have disputed that claim.
AI companies have been warning for months against campaigns by foreign actors to copy their AI technology and redeploy it as open source. In April, the White House said it would work closely with AI firms to combat the theft.
Sanctions from the U.S. against Chinese models would add to the growing list of strategies the government is attempting to maintain the lead in the AI race. After restricting China’s access to advanced chips and tightening export controls, Washington is now signaling it may target the AI models themselves, a move that could mark a significant escalation in the technological competition between frontier labs and Chinese open source alternatives.
Model distillation is a technique that allows some of a larger model’s capabilities to be translated into a smaller system that’s easier to run — but not everyone agrees that distilling another company’s model constitutes theft.
Earlier this month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized large labs for making just this assumption: “While the great innovation that comes from model providers having fair use rights to train models on public data is needed, I find it ironic that the status quo is to then turn around and impose restrictive terms on distillation.”
AI labs’ training practices continue to be a source of legal risk for the companies. Anthropic this week got the green light to start cutting authors checks as part of its $1.5 billion settlement after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books to train its AI.
Furthermore, some in the industry argue that distillation isn’t the only reason China is catching up to U.S. AI companies.
“We know distillation to be a very small factor in the ability to create good models, and it’s a practice that everyone is doing, including companies in the U.S.,” Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue said on a recent episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. “If it were easy just to do distillation to get good at building AI models, there would be many other countries, including in the U.S., with much better open source AI. The reality is they have really, really good research teams in China…taking a much more open and collaborative approach to AI than in the U.S.”
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Threads rolls out parental supervision tools
Meta is bringing parental supervision tools to Threads, the company announced on Tuesday. With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen’s time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings through Family Center, Meta’s hub for parental controls across its apps.
The rollout follows growing pressure on Meta from regulators and lawmakers to better protect young users online. The company has spent the last several years expanding parental controls across its apps in response to concerns over excessive screen time, harmful content, and teen safety, and is now bringing similar controls to Threads. It’s also worth noting that Meta, alongside other social media giants, is currently facing numerous lawsuits related to child safety.
Given these factors, it’s not surprising that Meta is finally introducing parental supervision tools to Threads, a platform with 500 million monthly users. The rollout comes three years after Threads’ launch in July 2023.
Parents and guardians will now be able to view how much time their teen spent on the platform each day for the past week, including their average daily time spent for the week. They will also be able to set a daily time limit and block access during select days and hours. If a teen uses Threads across multiple devices, like their phone and laptop, the time limit will apply to the total time spent using Threads.
Additionally, parents can limit or block their teen’s access to Threads at night, with notifications muted and auto-replies already on by default for all teens from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Parents also have the option to control who can tag their teen in posts on the platform.
Meta notes that teens on Threads already have built-in protections like private accounts and limits on the content they see. However, parents can now decide if teens under 16 can change any of these automatic settings to be less strict, the company says.
The parental supervision controls are rolling out next week in the U.S. Meta is planning to bring parental supervision on Threads globally by the end of the year, a spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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