The merge teams with global editions ( Press Gazette ) Australia to force tech giants to continue funding news ( BBC ) New York Times tech workers reach tentative union deal after election-week strike ( The Verge ) Dow Jones negotiates AI usage deals with nearly 4. The 000 news publishers ( NiemanLab ) STORYTELLING. The NEW FORMATS Time unveils new AI chatbot ( Axios ) ENVIRONMENT TikTok’s annual carbon footprint likely larger than Greece’s. The study finds ( The Guardian ) SOCIAL NETWORKS. The MESSAGING. The APPS TikTok Shop launches in Spain. The first step in European rollout ( Bloomberg ) YouTube Kids gets new design to look more like YouTube ( The Verge ) Reddit to launch AI-powered chatbot to counter search engines ( Bloomberg ) Meta announces Instagram.
The Facebook and WhatsApp outages are ‘99% resolved’
( The Guardian ) TikTok content creators in the United States warn followers to find them on Instagram and YouTube ( Reuters ) YouTube’s new auto-dubbing feature is now available for educational nurse database content ( TechCrunch ) TikTok owner fires intern for allegedly sabotaging AI project ( The Guardian ) Threads rolls out its own version of Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ ( TechCrunch ) STREAMING. The OTT SVOD YouTube raises price of its TV streaming service to $82.99 ( Wall Street Journal ) Warner Bros. Discovery splits into two: linear TV on one side. The streaming and studios on the other ( TV Technoloy) AUDIO. The PODCAST.
The TERMINALS iOS 18.2 improves
Apple’s Podcasts app ( 9to5Mac )( Semafor ) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. The DATA. The AUTOMATION OpenAI has finally launched Sora. The but not in Europe ( The Verge ) Meta launches tool to watermark AI-generated videos ( TechCrunch ) Harvard launches podcast buying business releases huge free dataset for AI training. The funded by OpenAI and Microsoft ( Wired ) OpenAI’s Sora video generator launches for ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers. The bahamas phone resource but not in the EU ( TechCrunch ) Google Unveils Gemini 2. The AI Agents and Personal Assistant Prototype ( Wired ) Microsoft releases Phi-4. The a new generative AI model. The in research preview ( TechCrunch ) MONETIZATION.
The particularly in the face of growing
expectations in terms of video formats and telegram database accessibility. For the moment. The Bluesky remains a relatively “elitist” platform. The popular with journalists and Hollywood personalities. The but still largely outside the interest of the general public. The and can we be sure that it will escape the economic evolution that other platforms have experienc? The experience of alternatives leaves room for doubt: Threads is launches podcast buying business turning away from current events (like the other platforms in the Zuckerberg ecosystem). The while Mastodon. The with its fragment architecture and its “instances”. The is struggling to unite an audience as large and homogeneous as that of Twitter in its early days.