#tiktok

Sonic Labs, built on Solana’s Layer-2 network, has launched an airdrop for TikTok users entering its blockchain game. This move is part of a strategy to tap into Web2’s massive social media audience.

AI chatbot Doubao of the TikTok parent firm (ByteDance) has surpassed its competitor, Baidu's Ernie Bot, in annual iOS downloads (9 million vs. 8 million). This milestone was achieved in less than nine months after the project's launch.

The US House of Representatives has voted in favor of the Act to Protect Americans from Applications Controlled by Foreign Adversaries.

Prominent Israeli journalists Miri Michaeli and Amit Segal have fashioned their own digital avatars for the ACT News channel on TikTok, thanks to artificial intelligence. While the artificial voices of Michaeli and Segal exhibit some deviation from their real-life vocal tones and there are minor lip-sync discrepancies, audiences readily accept the news as genuine. Initially focused on championing Israeli interests, the brains behind ACT News now plan to harness these AI-powered avatars to cover "uplifting events from around the world".

Chinese tech giant ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, plans to develop a new artificial intelligence model trained using chips from Huawei Technologies, particularly the Ascend 910B. This move appears to be in response to U.S. export restrictions on chip technology for Chinese ventures.

TikTok is set to automatically label content produced by artificial intelligence through the integration of Content Credentials technology. This system identifies AI-generated content and inserts special tags into the metadata, which are displayed to users.

A recent TikTok reel by Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali has gained considerable attention.

In a bid to compete with Twitter (recently rebranded to X) TikTok has launched a new feature enabling users to create and share text-based content. :comet: The move comes just 20 days after Meta’s Threads was introduced as a rival to X. Additional features like stickers, tags, hashtags, background colors, and draft saving are also available to enhance text-based content.