A wave of nearly identical AI-generated songs, all titled variations of "Angel Above Me" or "Run Run River," has gone viral on Spotify, TikTok, and iTunes, amassing millions of streams and hitting No.…
A wave of near-identical AI-generated songs, derived from the 2019 track "Angels Above Me" by Stick Figure, has flooded streaming platforms, accruing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and reac…
An anonymous enterprise spent $500 million in one month on Anthropic's Claude AI platform after providing employees with unlimited access to the tool without usage caps. The company's failure to imple…
AI-generated songs with near-identical names, lyrics, and melodies have flooded streaming platforms, amassing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and hitting No. 1 on iTunes in Germany and Austr…
A developer used GitHub Copilot to overcome years of stalled progress and successfully deploy their social app, Lumira, to the iOS App Store. The app, built to create a curated feed of photos from fri…
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is developing custom central processing units (CPUs) to power its artificial intelligence infrastructure, as prices for chips from Intel and AMD have surged 10…
A real estate lead generation company built an AI voice agent that calls new leads within five minutes of form submission, addressing a 400% drop in contact rates after that window. The system, trigge…
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, raised its 2026 capital expenditure budget to approximately $30 billion, a 25% increase, to accelerate AI infrastructure expansion. The company plans to invest…
Qualcomm shares rose after the chipmaker reached a deal to supply TikTok parent ByteDance with custom AI chips for data centers, marking the company's first major customer win in its push beyond smart…
Qualcomm shares surged Monday after Bloomberg reported the chipmaker is selling "millions" of custom AI processors to TikTok owner ByteDance for use in the social media company's AI agent software. Th…
Universal Music Group and TikTok renewed their global licensing agreement, committing to remove unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform and improve artist and songwriter attribution. The dea…
A new free online tool called Audio to Video AI Generator converts podcasts, music, and voice recordings into MP4 videos with auto-generated subtitles and visuals. The browser-based platform supports …
A system design deep dive into TikTok's architecture reveals a platform handling over 1 billion monthly active users, 34 million daily video uploads, and 26 Tbps of peak egress bandwidth, with a targe…
TryPost, an open-source social media scheduler, launched today, allowing users to batch, schedule, and publish content across Instagram, X, TikTok, and other networks from a single drag-and-drop calen…
Hundreds of "LabGerm" videos depicting fish and other small animals undergoing torturous "experiments" have spread across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook from Chinese social media, amassing millions o…
Mel Robbins, a millionaire podcaster, has defended Gen Z against accusations of laziness, arguing that older generations fail to understand the unique challenges young people face today, such as unaff…
A new study published in the *Journal of Marketing Research* found that receiving downvotes on Reddit does not drive users away, but instead encourages them to post more frequently while softening the…
According to a study published in *Nature*, TikTok's recommendation algorithm disproportionately served anti-Democratic and conservative political content to users during the 2024 election, regardless…
AppLovin, after failing to acquire TikTok, has quietly launched a new social media app called Gist, which blends features of TikTok, Lemon8, and RedNote, including photo carousels, videos, and mini-ga…
After failing to acquire TikTok, adtech company AppLovin has quietly launched a new social media app called Gist, which blends features from TikTok, Lemon8, and RedNote. The app requires a referral co…