ByteDance launched Seedream 5.0 Pro, a multimodal AI image generation model supporting 2K native resolution, 4K upscaling, and typography in 15 languages, intensifying competition in the generative AI…
Nearly half of the 353 people detained or arrested during chaotic July 4th celebrations in Newport Beach were from Arizona, according to police data. Only 10 of those detained were Newport Beach resid…
A Georgia woman went viral after claiming her boyfriend ended their relationship because he developed feelings for an AI-generated woman she created for a Facebook Marketplace listing. The TikTok crea…
President Donald Trump boasted that his D.C. beautification projects generated 4 billion TikTok views, but the metric may reflect viral criticism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, wh…
Developers are quietly afraid of getting left behind by AI tools, but chasing hype wastes time. The key is to build consistently with AI, look for people demonstrating real value in public, and distin…
Netflix reality star Jade Shenker, a luxury real estate agent from 'Owning Manhattan', sparked backlash after saying homeless people are 'pretty comfortable' and that one can live in New York without …
AI search now favors brands with strong reputations, consistent messaging, and trusted third-party validation, requiring marketers to shift focus from visibility to being chosen. A single AI prompt co…
A developer automated TikTok video production by connecting ChatGPT's API to FFmpeg Micro's text-overlay feature via n8n or Make.com. The workflow generates scripts under 100 words and burns them onto…
A viral video of soccer star Erling Haaland reacting to his reflection in a restaurant was actually AI-generated footage of Chinese comedian Jin Long, not the real Haaland. The clip, which amassed ove…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video generation model that accepts up to 50 multimodal reference inputs and supports 180-second beta video generation with multilingual creation. The model, dev…
Reddit is using large language models to combat spam, much of which is generated by LLMs, blocking 23 million spam views daily and catching 25,000 new spam posts per day. The platform reported a 20% r…
Paid media investments like YouTube sponsorships, native user-generated content, and third-party review incentives are now directly influencing how AI systems understand and recommend brands, blurring…
AI agents are transforming social media management by enabling tasks like content generation, scheduling, cross-posting, and analytics through natural language commands. A new guide outlines 15 concre…
Evidence Lab for Social Video launched an AI Video Detector that analyzes public social video links or uploaded files to determine if a video may be AI-generated. The tool provides likelihood-based re…
Creatify's Pro plan at $99 per month transforms product pages into ad creatives, with URL-to-Video scraping Amazon listings to produce scripted ad variants featuring avatar presenters, captions, and m…
A developer released cardiag, an open-source audio-ML pipeline that uses Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) to classify mechanical faults from phone recordings. The tool achieves 0.79 AUROC…
A personal finance hack called the 48-hour payday rule is gaining popularity on TikTok for helping curb overspending. The rule requires users to avoid any non-essential spending for the first two days…
TikTok is expanding its search features with Local Feed, AI summaries, and shopping tools, making it a key platform for business discovery. Nearly half of U.S. consumers used TikTok as a search engine…
China's Kling AI, a spin-off from Kuaishou Technology, is nearing a US$3 billion fundraising round at an US$18 billion valuation, with Tencent among the investors. The company plans to start its Hong …
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…