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Patent Drop

Google Patent Highlights Costs and Benefits of Generative AI Video

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Tons of companies are racing to build an AI video generation engine that actually works.

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Big Tech

TikTok is Ditching Music Streaming — But Spotify Can’t Relax

TikTok is calling it quits on a music streaming business that barely made it out the door, and only launched trials last year.

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Big Tech

TikTok’s Court Battle is Set Against a Larger Tech War

TikTok kicked off its legal fight challenging the US government’s divest-or-ban law passed in April, calling it unconstitutional.

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Advisor Upside

Where Does Gen Z Turn for Financial Advice? It’s Not TikTok

Parents and family members are Gen Z’s No. 1 source for financial advice, even topping social media influencers.

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Social Media

TikTok Retreats From Get-Paid-to-Use App Under European Scrutiny

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TikTok agreed to permanently withdraw a rewards program that it had on “TikTok Lite,” essentially a pared-down version of its core app.

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Media & Entertainment

Universal Music Feels the Sting from Streaming Saturation

Taylor Swift may be signed to the label, but Universal Music Group somehow can’t find a way to make its business work.

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Media & Entertainment

Does TV News Have a Home in the Streaming Era?

Big Tech loves movies, TV shows, and live sports. So why has it shown remarkably little appetite for the TV news business?

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Social Media

Billionaire Frank McCourt Pursues TikTok Acquisition

McCourt says his goal is to build “a new and better version of the internet, where individuals are respected.”

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Consumer

Temu Gets Spooked by Possible TikTok Ban

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The-commerce app, which has spent a fortune marketing itself in America, is reportedly starting to hedge its reliance on the US market.

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Social Media

TikTok to Start Labeling AI-Created Content

The platform says it plans to identify and label content created by other AI tools, like Adobe’s Firefly and OpenAI’s Dall-E.

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Social Media

Universal Music Squashes its Beef with TikTok

The new deal enmeshes UMG’s music into TikTok’s burgeoning e-commerce business while also battling AI-generated songs.

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Media & Entertainment

America’s Shortening Attention Spans are Corporate Gold

The stakes for media and tech companies have never been higher, even if attention spans have never been shorter.

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Regulation

FCC Votes to Restore Net Neutrality

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When the rules are in place, internet service providers must allow equal access to all websites and domains.

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