OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product
OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product

“We’re going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities,” Sam Yam wrote on X. The Patreon co-founder started the company 13 years ago…

YouTube will let you build your own homepage feeds with AI prompts
YouTube will let you build your own homepage feeds with AI prompts

“We pride ourselves on the fact that because we’ve created a home for creators, it has created all these other amazing opportunities for them,” YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan told The Wall Street Journal, asked about the platform’s rivalry with Net…

LinkedIn Adds More Profile Verifications to Combat AI-Powered Job Scams

Your coworkers and classmates can now vouch that you really do have a specific university or job on your resume.

San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts
San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts

San Francisco is suing the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for selling early access to President Donald Trump’s posts on the social media site. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court, alleges that the Truth API feed is a “corrupt business scheme” that violates both California’s Unfair Competition […]

Meta UK staff will finally be able to join a union — and it could spark a surge in nationwide membership

Meta will allow Prospect union access to all of its UK employees, and will inform workers of their rights to join a union, ahead of new Employment Rights Act deadline

‘It’s a grand experiment’: Bluebird President on the Twitter revival platform that’s now called ‘Tweet’
‘It’s a grand experiment’: Bluebird President on the Twitter revival platform that’s now called ‘Tweet’

Twitter is dead, but Tweet.app lives. We get the full story on the new name, why it’s still pay-only, and how algorithm control could change the social-media game.

X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts

X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request.

California will fine creators $5,000 a post for hidden political ads
California will fine creators $5,000 a post for hidden political ads

“I was hearing from people in the campaign world that there’s this new strategy of paying political influencers to post content,” said Marc Berman, the California assemblyman. “Some were good about disclosure and others were a bit fast and loose.” His …

Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.

Andrew Bosworth used an AMA on his personal Instagram to argue that the conversation about Meta’s glasses should not be shaped by a relatively small number of bad actors. Katie Notopoulos reported the exchange for Business Insider. Most people use the …

TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.
TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok. Vlad Savov and Josh Sisco reported the ruling for Bloomberg, which said Judge George H. Wu intends…