U.K. Bans Under-16s From Social Media in Sweeping Crackdown
Keir Starmer stood before the House of Commons on Monday with a message for British parents: the government is going to do what the platforms would not. The prime minister…
Meta Puts AI Search at the Center of Facebook
For most of its two decades, the search bar at the top of Facebook has been one of the least useful tools on the internet. On Monday, Meta Platforms turned…
WeChat Opens Its Mini-Program Empire to AI Agents
WeChat, the messaging app that runs the daily lives of more than a billion people in China, has opened its doors to AI agents. The company said it is letting…
ByteDance Says It Won’t Build Cars, Even as the Industry Around It Does
The name sounded like a corporate marriage announcement: Saidou, a blend of Seres and Doubao, ByteDance’s AI assistant, and the market drew its own conclusions. Reports spread that ByteDance, the…
ElevenLabs Lets Creators Edit AI Songs Mid-Generation
The frustration is familiar to anyone who has generated a song with an AI tool: the first verse lands, the chorus lands, and then the second verse drifts into something…
YouTube to Automatically Flag Realistic AI-Generated Videos
Somewhere on YouTube this week there is a video of a person who never spoke the words they appear to say. The platform has hosted such videos for years, relying…
Kuaishou’s Kling AI Posts 300% Revenue Jump as Video Model Finds Paying Users
The conventional wisdom about China’s AI industry has been that its models impress and its revenue disappoints. Kuaishou is building a counter-example. In the first quarter of 2026, the company’s…
UMG, TikTok Renew Pact With New AI Music Rules
Last year, a wave of AI-generated covers, pop hits sung by voices that no longer needed singers, sent the music industry scrambling. Labels watched recordings they did not authorize circulate…
Meta Quietly Releases Forum, a Reddit-Style Home for Facebook Groups
The app appeared in app stores with no announcement, no press release and no fanfare. Its name is Forum, and it is Meta’s answer to a question the company has…
NetEase’s Games Business Keeps Delivering
The number that stood out in NetEase’s first-quarter report wasn’t the headline revenue. It was where the money came from. The Chinese internet company said Thursday that net revenue rose…
