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DMs und Sprachnachrichten in Tiktok
Konkurrenz für WhatsApp: Tiktok ermöglicht nun auch das Versenden von privaten Nachrichten und sogar Sprachnachrichten.
https://www.heise.de/news/DMs-und-Sprachna…

TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-exec-a…

'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers
Generative AI is a powerful new tool for fraudsters trying to sell fake products, TikTok Shop's governance leader Nicolas Waldmann said.

Instacart integrates its retail data with TikTok Ads Manager, letting consumer packaged goods advertisers target audiences and measure conversions within TikTok (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/instacart-tiktok-ads-manager-463072

Instacart brings retail media targeting to TikTok Ads Manager
The partnership lets CPG advertisers use Instacart’s retail data to target high-intent shoppers and track purchases directly within TikTok.

Bundestag: Klöckner will TikTok erobern – Datenschützer protestieren
Im Etat 2025 finden sich fünf zusätzliche Social-Media-Stellen für die Bundestagsverwaltung. Präsidentin Klöckner setzt auch auf TikTok, doch es gibt Bedenken.

An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more (Washington Post)

Spending hours on TikTok? Here’s how the app keeps you swiping.
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

si vous êtes sur #tiktok ou #instagram, merci d’amplifier notre dernière vidéo “call to action” pour la cagnotte juridique des Chardons Bleus
tout comme sur #facebook

🧧 Chinese criminals made more than $1 billion from those annoying texts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chinese-criminals-made-more-than-1-billion-from-those-annoying-texts/ar-AA1OtOzx

Reading thoughts about a new Chinese openweights AI model, Kimi K2 Thinking.
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-thinking-what-it-means

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.

An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more (Washington Post)

Spending hours on TikTok? Here’s how the app keeps you swiping.
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googl…

Google’s $2.7 Billion AI Hire Tests Company’s Speech Limits With Inflammatory Posts
This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company’s internal discussion forums, in response to a post about how Google employees could support their transgender and nonbinary colleagues on International Transgender Day of Visibility. “I do not believe that humans ...