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TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/tiktok-live-podcast-demi-lovato-1236605034/

TikTok Announces Live Podcast Series, Launching With Demi Lovato
TikTok is launching a live podcast series called 'TikTok in the Mix' that premieres on Thursday with special guest Demi Lovato.

TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/tiktok-live-podcast-demi-lovato-1236605034/

TikTok Announces Live Podcast Series, Launching With Demi Lovato
TikTok is launching a live podcast series called 'TikTok in the Mix' that premieres on Thursday with special guest Demi Lovato.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMD59Egc/
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TikTok and iHeartMedia partner for the TikTok Podcast Network, with up to 25 new podcasts by TikTok creators focusing on lifestyle, personal stories, and more (Colin Kirkland/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/articl…

TikTok Takes On Broadcast Radio, Podcasting With Partnership
iHeartMedia and TikTok are collaborating on a new "TikTok Podcast Network," a digital radio station and live event integrations featuring TikTok creators-turned-podcasters.

Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report

Videos of sexually suggestive, AI-generated children are racking up millions of likes on TikTok, study finds
AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked up millions of likes on TikTok, even though the platform’s rules prohibit such content, according to new research from an online safety non-profit.

TikTok Shop sold an estimated $19B worth of products globally in Q3, with US sales up 125% compared to Q2, reaching eBay's scale two years after its US launch (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-shop-sales-global-ecommerce/

TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay
TikTok’s ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.

Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figures debated about AI progress, and why automating research engineers is plausible within years (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/thoughts-on-the-curve

Thoughts on The Curve
The conference and the trajectory.

Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/fert

Fertility startup Inito wants to use AI-designed antibodies to expand at-home health tests | TechCrunch
Inito has raised $29 million in new funding to invest in and develop AI-engineered antibodies that will help it offer new types of tests and improve the accuracy of existing ones.

Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/1…

A 3-person policy nonprofit that worked on California’s AI safety law is publicly accusing OpenAI of intimidation tactics
In a widely read post on social media, the general counsel of Encode said OpenAI used subpoenas and political muscle to intimidate the firm and to undermine California’s new AI safety bill, all while falsely claiming the firm was funded by Elon Musk.

Spotify will begin testing a feature that lets a user write a prompt for a playlist and receive a unique set of songs based on the user's earlier behavior (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/spotify-tests-more-person…

Spotify tests more personalized, AI-powered 'Prompted Playlists' | TechCrunch
The playlists can factor in world knowledge, go back to your listening history from day one, and be refreshed daily or weekly.