A teenage student, Sasha Davies, has won £10,000 in High Court damages after Elha-Mai Weston, another teenager from the same Welsh town, stole her identity and used her photos and AI-generated imagery…
An analysis of 17 ad-campaign MCP servers found that 82% (14 of 17) support only a single ad platform, creating fragmented setups with multiple installs and credential stores. Only three servers cover…
A new report from human rights nonprofit Witness warns that the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a content-credentialing network backed by OpenAI, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, and…
TikTok will test improved detection systems for AI-generated spam accounts posting about politics, financial advice, and medical topics, the company announced in a newsroom post. The testing, set to b…
AI UGC tools such as Creatify, HeyGen, and Arcads can generate spokesperson videos for a few dollars per clip, but their real value is limited to high-volume hook testing rather than full ad productio…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a law to ban minors from social media across the EU, citing child protection against 'predatory algorithms,' but critics argue the move tar…
ByteDance and Alibaba will shut down user-created AI companion features in their Doubao and Qwen apps respectively starting July 15, as China's new interim rules for anthropomorphic AI interactive ser…
Two jury verdicts against Meta and Google in late March 2026 signal emerging liability risk for software platforms designed to drive prolonged engagement, with implications for insurers as design-cent…
Reddit developers and founders warn that vibe-coding a social media scheduler SaaS app leads to critical failures, including OAuth token leaks, unreliable scheduling logic, and platform API compliance…
AI-powered platforms are transforming short-form video creation for TikTok and Instagram, but experts caution that technology alone cannot guarantee virality without genuine creativity and engaging co…
A Georgia woman says her boyfriend ended their relationship after she created an AI-generated image of an attractive woman for a Facebook Marketplace listing, which he admitted he found attractive. Th…
Eden Surge launches an all-in-one commerce platform combining POS terminals, inventory management, social media ad automation, and an AI consultant called Adam AI. The system targets small to large bu…
A new AI-powered platform lets ecommerce sellers generate realistic user-generated content (UGC) video ads in minutes using AI actors, voiceovers, and product demos, replacing traditional creator-base…
French fitness startup WeWard, backed by Venus Williams, launched a "Walking Mode" feature that locks social media apps until users hit a customizable step goal. The feature was vibecoded by the compa…
At Cannes Lions, Snap, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Google executives acknowledged that AI-powered creative tools risk producing homogeneous content that undermines platform authenticity. They …
LocalClip, a local-first AI video clipper for Mac, launched on Show HN. The app runs entirely on-device using Apple Silicon, offering instant transcription and vertical clip creation without cloud upl…
Character.AI is launching its own microdrama series featuring AI characters, with an interactive twist allowing users over 18 to chat with and roleplay with the characters. The startup aims to eventua…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said AI-generated content is a tailwind for authenticity on the platform, as the company adapts to a synthetic-content world. In a podcast interview, he discussed how Insta…
The UK government announced plans to ban under-18s from using romantic AI chatbots as part of broader social media restrictions for under-16s. Researchers argue the policy overlooks key risks young pe…
A Dutch court ordered a high school in Den Bosch to immediately readmit a 13-year-old student who was expelled for creating racist AI-generated videos of a teacher using the Grok model and sharing the…