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Robin Williams' children reactivated his dormant profile to supply authentic footage where the fakes circulate. It is cheaper than chasing recreations, and other rights holders will copy it.
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A new study says AI agents still fail at free-form research. The self-improvement story is the load-bearing beam under a lot of compute spending, and it just got a crack in it.
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A $320 million Series H values the payments company at $11 billion on an autonomous-finance story. Its president says it is still "not the best time" for an IPO.
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Talent managers are repricing AI brand deals to cover audience backlash, and some are refusing them outright. Reach is no longer the only line item.
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British filings show the unit covering the UK, Europe and Latin America turned its first profit in the year TikTok was forced offline in America. Political risk was regional, not existential.
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Export controls walled off China's AI demand from TSMC and Samsung. SMIC, the only domestic route to 7nm-class logic, is now repricing the captive pool it inherited.
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US export controls cover physical Nvidia chips, not remote access to them. A House-passed bill would change that, but the rule-writing and the customer checks are still unfinished business.
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ByteDance and Tencent have each taken roughly 10,000 accelerators against licence caps of 75,000 and January orders near two million. The constraint is paperwork, not fabrication.
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Kavan Cardoza lost a Batman fan film to a Warner Bros. claim. His own series is registered script by script and design by design, while the finished episodes are still pending.
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China's Ministry of State Security told state-linked entities to uninstall a customised Windows 10 ahead of schedule, Bloomberg reported. Microsoft says it is aware of no security incident.
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TrendForce now expects domestic silicon to take about 90% of China's AI accelerator market in 2026, up from 45%. The arithmetic says the constraint is fab and packaging output, not Washington.
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The memorandum covers every ByteDance AI model, including those in CapCut and Dreamina. The terms are undisclosed, so builders get a rulebook they cannot inspect.
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V4 Pro shipped with an API price increase of up to 12-fold, and Moonshot AI and ByteDance have added paid tiers. Anyone whose margins assumed cheap Chinese endpoints needs to re-model.
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Cache-hit pricing went from 0.025 to 0.3 yuan, peak and off-peak rates arrived, and Moonshot, ByteDance and Alibaba are moving the same direction. Reprice now.
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China's chip directive is a procurement decision the domestic hardware cannot yet honor. The constraint is not silicon supply, it is nearly two decades of software nobody has rebuilt.
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Merchants put Amazon at about half of sales and TikTok Shop at 5 to 15 percent, while crediting TikTok for the growth in every other channel.
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China was 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024, and Reuters reports the office closures show up in corporate filings. Google made the same call loudly in 2010.
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