TikTok, Facing a U.S. Ban, Tells Advertisers: We’re Here and Confident

“TikTok is here — we are here,” Khartoon Weiss, the company’s vice president of global business…

China’s Garment Factories Face a Tipping Point After New Tariffs

Liu Miao has sold clothing on Amazon to wholesale buyers in the United States for the…

TikTok Fined $600 Million for Sending European User Data to China

TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday for violating a European Union data…

Meta and Blumhouse Create Chatbot That Encourages Phone Use During Movies

“Oh, wow, this is really cool,” Flannery Johnston, 28, said as the chatbot came to life,…

Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure

At the start of April, an influx of action figure started appearing on social media sites…

Christina Leitzel’s ‘Fun’ Prosthetic Eyes are Designed to Stand Out

As a maker of prosthetic eyes, Christina Leitzel was told as an apprentice to treat her…

AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the…

House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump

The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit…

The Meta Trial Shows the Dangers of Selling Out

Meta has a lot at stake in the current FTC lawsuit against it. In theory a…

How the War in Gaza Drove Israel’s A.I. Experiments

In late 2023, Israel was aiming to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a top Hamas commander in the…

As Recession Fears Rise, ‘No Buy’ Takes On New Urgency

With many Americans concerned that President Trump’s tariffs will make most products more expensive and possibly…

With Khloud, Khloe Kardashian Will Release a Protein-Packed Popcorn

Cereal. Ice cream. Flavored sparkling water. A Snickers bar. Donuts and brownies. Candy. What sounds like…

On TikTok, Chinese Manufacturers Open a New Line in the Trade War

Chinese manufacturers are flooding TikTok and other social media apps with direct appeals to American shoppers,…

For China’s Trolls, ‘Chairman Trump’ and ‘Eyeliner Man’ Are Easy Targets

The Chinese are trolling the Trump administration. A YouTuber who used to make parody music videos…

Discord’s Jason Citron Steps Down as CEO of the Social Chat App

Jason Citron, a co-founder of the popular social chat app Discord, stepped down as the company’s…

Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification

Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check…

New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children

Discord is facing a new lawsuit from the state of New Jersey, which claims that the…

Tariff Confusion and Recession Fears Leave Advertisers ‘Paralyzed’

Persuading people to spend money in a time of unpredictable tariffs is proving to be a…

‘Human Made’: Artists Push Back on A.I. Dolls and Action Figures

This week, the actress Brooke Shields posted an image of an action-figure version of herself that…

The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard.

The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company…

The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard.

The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company…

What If Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp?

In 2012, when Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg cut a $1 billion check to buy the…