At the beginning of 2023, TikTok was one of the weirdest and most delightful places on the internet. An app with a reputation for memes and 30-second dances had become the front page of the internet, and it seemed TikTok was only getting better as the platform matured. A year later, TikTok’s growth finally appears … Read more
Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert (Getty Images) A new report from CNBC shows that lobbyists connected to the AI industry were quite busy last year. Indeed, in 2023, AI lobbying efforts shot up 185 percent from the previous year. The analysis, which is based on disclosures provided to the non-profit OpenSecrets, shows that the long list of … Read more
Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images (Getty Images) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infamous anti-vaxxer and 2024 presidential hopeful, says he wasn’t the one who posted a message on the TikTok page of a fitness influencer who was admiring her glutes after a workout. Sure, RFK Jr., we believe you as much as you believe Big Pharma. … Read more
Sheldon Cooper | LightRocket | Getty Images TikTok parent company ByteDance is cutting hundreds of jobs in its gaming division, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC, marking a significant retreat from a segment it has invested billions of dollars in to challenge market leader Tencent. “We regularly review our businesses and make adjustments … Read more
ByteDance’s gaming ambition has been an expensive, short-lived pursuit. In late 2021, the TikTok parent’s plans for video games came into the spotlight after it became one of the firm’s six core business units, posing a new threat to incumbents such as Tencent and NetEase and rising star MiHoYo. Nonetheless, after two years of tepid … Read more
Image Source/Getty Images Richmond, Virginia: At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to tune the Linux kernel for the maximum results for specific workloads. Also: Rust in Linux: Where we are and … Read more
Meta’s bread and butter has long been its user-centric targeted ad business, but European regulations are forcing the company to rethink how it can monetize its ostensibly free social platforms. The answer? Make users pay up if they prefer not to let their data be used to sell them products. Nobody’s Really Watching Reels Last … Read more
Signage on the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sales space on the Sensible China Expo in Chongqing, China, on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs Alibaba must be “person first” and “AI-driven,” new CEO Eddie Wu instructed staff on Tuesday, as he laid out the strategic priorities for the Chinese language … Read more
Indignant readers flooded TikTok and the GoodReads web page of an writer’s forthcoming e book with one-star evaluations after the writer attacked one explicit reviewer for score the novel 4 out of 5 stars. GoodReads appears to have paused evaluations of the e book in response, freezing the web page because it was on Wednesday. … Read more
In just a few brief months, the concept of convincing information articles written fully by computer systems have developed from perceived absurdity right into a actuality that’s already complicated some readers. Now, writers, editors, and policymakers are scrambling to develop requirements to keep up belief in a world the place AI-generated textual content will more … Read more