For twenty years, the deal between Google and the web was simple. Publishers let Google crawl their pages. Google sent readers back in return. That bargain is breaking. Reddit is the latest, and loudest, sign. Its shares fell about 9% on Wednesday afte…
The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Meta’s chief executive posted a sunny vision of the AI future, and wrapped it in a marketing campaign. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said Meta “has alway…
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, pri…
YouTube creator Gossip Goblin brings AI-assisted feature “Gods Don’t Give Gifts” to U.S. theaters, testing whether online fandom can drive box office.
YouTube creator Gossip Goblin brings AI-assisted feature “Gods Don’t Give Gifts” to U.S. theaters, testing whether online fandom can drive box office.
Amelia Dimoldenberg expands her YouTube empire with the return of her Formula 1 collaboration ‘Passenger Princess.’
Substack has a name for the moment you realise a post you admired for its human voice actually came from a bot: Claudefishing. Now it is handing readers a button to catch it, powered by the AI detector Pangram. The newsletter platform has launched an A…
Camille Hanson woke one night in March to a notification: Meta had flagged her Facebook and Instagram accounts for deletion. She and her husband ran an English-teaching business there with nearly a million followers. Meta said she had breached its rule…
TikTok is launching a new in-app hub to help you spot AI-generated content as it cracks down on AI slop.