Comedian Husk, a former full-time landscaper from Maine, has amassed over 700,000 TikTok followers and 1 million Instagram followers in eight months by posting videos that troll ChatGPT's voice mode, …
Ben Jeffries, co-founder and CEO of Influencer, says answer engine optimization (AEO) is becoming a core marketing priority as AI changes product discovery, and creators play a defining role in produc…
Robin Williams' children Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams have reactivated his dormant Instagram account to serve as an official archive and combat what they call 'rampant AI abuse' of his voice and like…
Advertisers are increasing spending on YouTube Shorts, but the platform still struggles to capture social video budgets, with Shorts CPMs at $4-$6 versus $7-$8 for Meta's Reels and TikTok, according t…
Google's AI Overviews cited Facebook in 19.5 million of over 300 million U.S. monthly searches, Instagram in about 877,000, and TikTok in around 78,000, according to BrightEdge research. The analysis …
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, attracted over $30 billion in orders for a $20 billion syndicated loan, its largest-ever offshore facility, with a three-year tenor extendable to five years. T…
A new AI-powered tool claims to remove TikTok's 'matcha filter' (officially 'wild hearts whisper') from photos in under 30 seconds, using color correction to reduce the green-yellow tint and restore n…
ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, has attracted more than $30 billion in orders for its $20 billion syndicated loan, indicating strong lender interest as the Chinese tech giant ramps up AI inve…
Reddit is testing a new AI-powered feature that converts text posts into TikTok-style videos with AI-generated voiceovers, captions, and visual templates, rolling out in web browsers on Monday and exp…
Spotify began labeling AI-generated artist profiles with an 'AI Persona' badge on August 11, 2026, and will remove them from default recommendations in mid-September, after deleting over 75 million sp…
TikTok is using an AI clone of a brand founder for advertisements, treating the founder's identity as a set of model weights to generate personalized ads at scale. The platform leverages a few minutes…
A candy brand discovered that TikTok created an AI clone of its founder to run ads, according to a video report. The clone was used in advertisements without the founder's consent, raising concerns ab…
Reddit is testing a feature that converts text posts into AI-narrated short videos and audio segments, using AI-generated voices to narrate original posts and selected comments. The experiment, announ…
Mexico is exploring ways to regulate social media use among children and adolescents, with President Claudia Sheinbaum inviting experts to her daily press conference and planning discussions with teac…
A fake AI influencer named Janie, created by an unnamed author using ChatGPT-generated images and AI video tools, amassed 1,300 TikTok followers and tens of thousands of views per video within a week,…
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance announced a global agreement Monday to protect intellectual property on ByteDance's AI video and image generators, including Seedance and Seedream, marking…
ByteDance signed a memorandum of understanding with the Motion Picture Association on August 17, marking the first formal copyright agreement between Hollywood's trade group and an AI company. The dea…
Instagram remains flooded with creepy smart glasses content a month after Meta Platforms Inc. vowed to crack down on it, according to a Business Insider report that identified dozens of 'prank' and 'p…
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance announced a memorandum of understanding to protect film and TV intellectual property across ByteDance's AI video and image generators Seedance and Seedream…
Democratic operatives are studying how to use AI chatbots and social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and ChatGPT, to influence less politically engaged swing voters in the next …