Evidence Lab for Social Video launched an AI Video Detector that analyzes public social video links or uploaded files to determine if a video may be AI-generated. The tool provides likelihood-based re…
Creatify's Pro plan at $99 per month transforms product pages into ad creatives, with URL-to-Video scraping Amazon listings to produce scripted ad variants featuring avatar presenters, captions, and m…
A developer released cardiag, an open-source audio-ML pipeline that uses Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) to classify mechanical faults from phone recordings. The tool achieves 0.79 AUROC…
A personal finance hack called the 48-hour payday rule is gaining popularity on TikTok for helping curb overspending. The rule requires users to avoid any non-essential spending for the first two days…
TikTok is expanding its search features with Local Feed, AI summaries, and shopping tools, making it a key platform for business discovery. Nearly half of U.S. consumers used TikTok as a search engine…
China's Kling AI, a spin-off from Kuaishou Technology, is nearing a US$3 billion fundraising round at an US$18 billion valuation, with Tencent among the investors. The company plans to start its Hong …
Angel Fernandez, a 22-year-old 6ft 7in model from Miami, Florida, turned her height into a $5 million empire on OnlyFans in two years, now owning four homes. She credits her success to embracing her s…
Andy Burnham, set to become prime minister within three weeks, used TikTok to rate AI-generated mock-ups of his proposed 'No10 North' in Manchester, promoting his 'Manchesterism' agenda to decentraliz…
TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its Dublin hub, affecting roughly a tenth of its local workforce, as part of a restructuring of its AI data service and operations team. The proposed re…
ByteDance is investing $37.7 billion to build its largest data center outside China in Brazil's Ceará state, powered by wind energy and backed by a $2 billion renewable supply deal. The facility, loca…
Disney appointed a new CEO, YouTube began pitching creator show sponsorships, and Nielsen updated its measurement methodology in the first half of 2026, while Netflix did not acquire Warner Bros. Disc…
Ireland's upcoming EU presidency is compromised by its deep ties to big tech, with the Irish state and economy captured by companies like Google, Meta, and Apple. The country's data protection commiss…
ByteDance released Seed Audio 1.0, a generative audio model that produces full audio scenes with dialogue, ambient sound, and effects from a single prompt. The model uses latent diffusion and cross-mo…
A growing backlash against AI is evident in public sentiment, particularly on platforms like TikTok, where users express visceral hatred for the technology. The author argues that Silicon Valley under…
Google's NotebookLM is adding a feature that converts user notes into 60-second TikTok-style AI videos, available exclusively to AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. The tool aims to make complex information…
The internet's reliability as a repository of knowledge is threatened by a flood of disinformation and AI-generated content, known as AI slop, which makes it increasingly difficult to find accurate in…
Purdue researchers tested 24 deepfake detection systems and found commercial tools generally performed better as AI identity fraud raises new risks for crypto KYC. The study found Incode's DeepSight a…
NoimosAI launched a Creative Agent that generates brand-ready assets by analyzing competitor output, top-performing creatives, and a brand's past results, aiming to replace guesswork with data-driven …
A blog post on zettelkasten.de reports that junior software engineering roles are being reduced as senior engineers oversee AI agents, and that degrees are perceived as devalued because students deleg…
Shark launched the PowerDetect Transformer, a vacuum that converts between upright, stick, and handheld forms. The upright features a dual-brushroll system and the stick/handheld share a smaller canis…