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…
Search platforms like Google Ads, Meta, and TikTok are pushing advertisers toward broader, AI-driven targeting, making creative the primary qualifier for audiences. As targeting narrows, precise messa…
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…
Waitrose has confirmed that the correct pronunciation of its name is 'Wait-rose', not 'Way-trose', as it derives from the surnames of founders Wallace Waite and Arthur Rose. The clarification came fro…
AI-generated influencers like 'Derek Lam' are amassing tens of thousands of followers on TikTok and X by posting shirtless, dancing videos, with many fans unaware they are not real. These deepfakes st…
Hickeys, once a teenage rite of passage, are becoming less common among adults, with many associating them with immaturity or unprofessionalism. Sexuality expert Courtney Boyer notes that adults often…
ByteDance launched Seed Audio 1.0, an audio scene generation model that creates synchronized dialogue, ambient sound, and sound effects for AI video workflows at 18 cents per minute. The model analyze…
A developer built Truss, a B2C SaaS for content creators, using a single DynamoDB table to model six entities including users, videos, clips, streams, analytics, and platform tokens. The single-table …