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    EU Finds TikTok’s Rabbit Hole Effect Breaches Law and Wants Feed Redesign

    Key Takeaways The European Commission preliminarily found on November 6 that TikTok’s For You feed breaches the Digital Services Act through a “rabbit hole effect,” focusing on TikTok’s risk assessment and mitigation. The Commission says the feed learns from watching and liking, so more engagement with a topic brings similar…
    8 hours ago

    California’s Autoplay and Personalized Feed Ban Draws BigTech Lawsuits 

    Key Takeaways Meta, Google, and TikTok filed separate suits against California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block AB 1709, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed in September. The law bars personalized feeds and autoplay for under-16s, requires deleting accounts of users who keep receiving them, and carries fines up to $50,000…
    10 hours ago

    Meta Makes AI Chats Look Face-to-Face, but Video Remains One-Way

    Key Takeaways Meta announced on November 5 that voice conversations with an animated Muse avatar are live in the US, in the Muse app on mobile, web and Mac. The interaction is a one-way, audio-driven visual avatar (Jolly) rendered locally on-screen.  Users tap a phone icon to talk, can interrupt…
    1 day ago

    Apple Will Now Check Public iCloud Links and May Disable Accounts

    Key Takeaways Apple’s support document says items shared with “Anyone with the Link” will be checked from iOS 27.3, and links set to “People you choose” are not described as checked. Apple does not define harmful content or explain how checks work, or whether people or automated systems decide, The…
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    You Can Now Create GIFs in ChatGPT and Edit Them Frame by Frame

    Key Takeaways ChatGPT can now make an animated GIF from a text prompt or an uploaded photo, adjust its speed, edit individual frames and share it. OpenAI says Images 2.6 generates images faster but gives no figure, and the 50% faster claim in coverage applies to Images 2.5 versus 2.0.…

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