TikTok awarded a technology grant to UK performance and creative agency Nest Commerce to launch Hummingbird, an AI creative and performance platform built specifically for TikTok, announced on TikTok'…
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said the livestreaming platform has no pressing need to adopt generative AI disclosure rules, telling GamesBeat at Tokyo Game Show 2026 that the substitution-style AI use that pr…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple's Cupertino headquarters on Saturday to seek big tech backing for Canberra's online safety laws and AI regulation, saying "Au…
Cybersecurity experts say free AI software is supercharging hackers, enabling attacks such as the hijacking of a TikTok user's camera, according to a Washington Post report published September 18, 202…
Product page copy still matters even as AI agents read product feeds and schema markup, according to an Ask an SEO column published by Search Engine Journal, because large language models such as Chat…
The European Commission proposed the EU Kids Act, which would bar children under 13 from holding social media accounts and require 13- and 14-year-olds to use parental-supervised "mini accounts" cappe…
Google published a new guide explaining how publishers and creators can add a Search Profile badge to their websites, a feature currently enabled only for United States-based publishers and creators. …
A user asked Anthropic's Claude to build an AI video generator running on the user's own hardware, producing a tool that turns one photo and one sentence into a 5 to 15 second video with sound in abou…
Google introduced platform properties in Search Console on July 7, 2026, letting verified owners of Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube accounts track how their social and video posts perform across Goo…
A solo developer built Snapyo, a free web tool that downloads videos and extracts MP3 audio from TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts by pasting a link. The project was assembled in about two d…
Alexis Ohanian-backed startup Plot surfaced TikTok creator Samara Boulter to Benefit Cosmetics after her seven mentions of the brand in the last three months earned over 32 million views, according to…
The European Commission will propose an EU Kids Act on Thursday barring under-15s from creating social media and video-sharing accounts without parental consent, according to a confidential document o…
The European Union is drafting an "EU Kids Act" that would require age verification to access online games, AI services, and social media, according to a report by Euractiv citing a copy of the draft …
The European Commission will propose an EU KIDS Act on Thursday to set an EU-wide minimum age for accessing social media, according to preparatory documents seen by POLITICO. Commission spokesperson O…
A developer launched cloney.app, an unlimited AI video generator that lets users paste any viral TikTok or Instagram Reels URL to produce their own version of the video. The tool runs on a Modal AI in…
A developer built LinkDigest, a hosted reader and MCP server that converts links from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, TikTok, YouTube and X into LLM-usable text, including transcripts with timecodes, on-screen t…
A developer built LinkDigest, an API and MCP server that converts links from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, TikTok, YouTube and X into agent-readable text, extracting video transcripts, on-screen text, image de…
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said at a press briefing in Australia that only a "very vocal minority" of users prefer a chronological feed, arguing that a reverse-chronological feed gets "overwhelmed w…
A small team at Presango built Hannah, an AI presenter that joins Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom calls as a participant, presents decks on camera, responds to voice commands and audience questions, and …
Google announced a record €13bn ($15bn) investment in Finland's AI infrastructure, its largest single investment in Europe, which will fund three new data centres, expand an existing site, and support…