Chinese AI labs will continue to open-source their models, contrary to speculation that they are moving toward closed systems, because the commercial strategy remains viable. The approach allows labs …
Tabiji, an AI-generated travel-safety channel, amassed 18.1 million views across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook in 90 days by automating video production from Reddit-sourced scam stories. Th…
A security researcher known as Mayu has confirmed that the popular custom Discord client Nightcord is a Trojan-PSW (Password Stealer) and token grabber, disguised as an optimized client with over 30,0…
Dozens of TikTok sellers are using AI-generated influencer personas to promote dropshipped products, including belt buckles and crochet bags, with identical items found on the fast-fashion site Shein …
AI-generated influencers posing as Black small business owners are being used to sell mass-produced products from fast-fashion site Shein at inflated prices on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. The Ver…
TikTok enabled an AI remix feature by default on all existing videos in April 2026, forcing creators to manually disable the setting for each individual post. The platform's "Allow AI to Remix Content…
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…