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TikTok is powering up its artificial intelligence-powered generation tools for advertisers by integrating the latest Seedance 2.0 video generation model from parent company ByteDance into its TikTok Symphony ad creation toolkit. Dreamina Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance’s most advanced video generation system, able to generate realistic-looking, consistent depictions based on text prompts. As…

Siding with artificial intelligence (AI) company Perplexity, digital rights watchdogs are asking an appellate court to lift an injunction banning the company’s shopping agent, Comet, from Amazon. U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney in the Northern District of California handed down the injunction in March, after finding that Amazon was…

YouTube is raising the price of its Premium subscription offerings, with a $2 monthly increase on individual accounts and a $4 increase on family plans. As reported by 9 to 5 Google, YouTube sent a notification out to Premium subscribers alerting them to the change, which will be implemented in the…

LinkedIn on Monday was hit with new class-action privacy lawsuits over allegations that it scans users’ browsers to determine what extensions have been installed. “When users visit LinkedIn, defendant executes hidden scripts that scan their browser for installed extensions and it then transmits that data to third parties without users’…

TikTok announced the next stage of its expanded investment in Europe, with a 1 billion euro, or $1.2 billion, data center project in Lahti, Finland. The new data center will store TikTok’s EU user information separately away from the company’s home base in China, in compliance with EU directives. The new…

LinkedIn on Monday was hit with new class-action privacy lawsuits over allegations that it scans users’ browsers to determine what extensions have been installed. “When users visit LinkedIn, defendant executes hidden scripts that scan their browser for installed extensions and it then transmits that data to third parties without users’…

YouTube added some new insights to its Media Kit for channels, which will enable creators to share expanded audience data with potential partners. The platform is also bringing more artificial intelligence-powered creation tools to its separate video editing app. First, YouTube added new elements to its Media Kit info display, giving…

Mark Zuckerberg’s quest for artificial intelligence supremacy could be poised to take its next major step, with Axios reporting that Meta’s Superintelligence group is close to launching its first AI models. Meta formed its Superintelligence project in June, with Zuckerberg announcing his intention to “bring personal superintelligence to everyone” in order to accelerate…

OpenAI has proposed policies geared for the artificial intelligence (AI) era to support a public wealth fund and rapid social safety net programs. These measures are intended to help merge AI with business as well as the advertising industry, and address the potential disruption to ad-sector jobs. It also would…

Google Gemini has overtaken Perplexity to become the world’s second-largest source of AI chatbot referrals to websites for the first time, according to independent web analytics company Statcounter. Publishers have struggled with the lack of referral traffic from AI chatbots to websites from one of the most used traditional search…