"What's new" is a casual way to ask for recent news or updates. People use it to check in on someone's life, work, or current events. It can also sound dry or ironic, meaning nothing has changed.
There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years. Gordon Getty
Point of in-box empty: having a complete, current inventory of what matters, so you deal clearly with what's new & what's now. David Allen (author)
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. Gordon Brown
What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld. Jim Hightower
We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days. Jennifer Morrison
There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new. Adam Clayton