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FTC Says Meta is a Monopoly. But in Which Markets, Exactly?

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Central to the trial is one question: Just who, exactly, are Meta’s competitors? The FTC’s answer may be narrower than you’d expect.

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Social Media

EU Hits Meta With Yet Another Child Welfare Investigation

The threat posed by Europe’s new law might have more power to punish Meta than what it’s previously dealt with.

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Social Media

Billionaire Frank McCourt Pursues TikTok Acquisition

McCourt says his goal is to build “a new and better version of the internet, where individuals are respected.”

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Patent Drop

Meta’s Machine Learning AR Patent Fuses Its AI and Metaverse Bets

Despite investors’ reaction to the company’s big spending, Meta’s potential to monetize AI and its access to data may give it a leg up in the long…

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Social Media

TikTok Still Doesn’t Have a Buyer

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We’re now less than one month away from the April 5 sale-or-ban deadline the Trump administration gave TikTok.

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Social Media

Universal Music Squashes its Beef with TikTok

The new deal enmeshes UMG’s music into TikTok’s burgeoning e-commerce business while also battling AI-generated songs.

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Media & Entertainment

America’s Shortening Attention Spans are Corporate Gold

The stakes for media and tech companies have never been higher, even if attention spans have never been shorter.

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Social Media

TikTok Is Ready to Sue Over Potential US Ban

The new bill could be voted on in the Senate as soon as Tuesday, and TikTok is ready with a legal strategy.

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Social Media

Banks Ready to Offload $3 Billion in Previously Unmoveable X Debt

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Banks expect to get 90 to 95 cents on the dollar. It’s actually not a bad deal, considering where things were just months ago.

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Social Media

Meta Patent Adds AI Voice Assistants Across Devices and Apps

Its latest patent for a way to perform “concierge-type services” via voice adds to the company’s broader AI ambitions.

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Social Media

TikTok is Launching an Instagram Clone

The short-form video app said it will soon launch “TikTok Notes,” a photo-and-text-based platform intended to mimic the appeal of Instagram.

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Patent Drop

Snap Plays Catch Up to Apple, Meta with Spatial Audio AR Filing

The filing highlights that sound is a major part of the extended reality experience.

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Social Media

TikTok Restored Services in the US. Now What?

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After a brief blackout period from late Saturday, TikTok began restoring services to US users on Sunday morning.

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Patent Drop

Snap’s Generative AR Patent May Target Developers, Brands

But Meta’s AI may have Snap’s beat “just in sheer volume” of data, one expert said.

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Patent Drop

Meta Patent Could Make AI Both Personalized and Private

Tech like this could keep Meta’s models from prompt attack data slips — or at least give it some “thought leadership brownie points.”

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Patent Drop

Snap Patent Could Use Your Phone to Make AR Glasses Lighter

For any company developing AR, a sleeker, longer-last form factor is the “end goal,” one expert said.

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