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Updates on TikTok

Every AI story we track on TikTok — 26 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 124 sources

This week

Finance5 min read

TikTok star Vivian Tu is bringing her ‘Your Rich BFF’ persona to a new finance app

Business Insider

The body image battle is real in 2026, but the bodies may not be

Axios

This month

Social Media5 min read

A Venture Capitalist Spent $100 Creating A Fake Sorority Girl. TikTok Didn’t Notice.

Forbes
AI Research2 min read

ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models to protect Hollywood IPs

Covered by 2 sources
Machine Learning2 min read

ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

Ars Technica
Video Generation5 min read

Disney's latest TikTok deal shows it's betting on real creators instead of AI-generated videos

TechRadar
Social Media2 min read

Disney agrees deal to let TikTokers use its films and TV shows in videos

BBC
Marketing & Sales8 min read

AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory

Wired
Society & Culture1 min read

LessWrong vs. TikTok: Tips for capturing attention in a non-rational space

LessWrong

A look at ByteDance's efforts to become China's leading company across all aspects of AI, from frontier models and video generation to infrastructure and chips (Financial Times)

Techmeme
Video Generation3 min read

Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.

The Next Web

OpenAI is adding 250 jobs in Dublin as Ireland loses tech roles to AI elsewhere

The Next Web
Healthcare4 min read

Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’

Covered by 2 sources
Dev5 min read

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

TechCrunch
Marketing & Sales3 min read

Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds

The Next Web
Video Generation2 min read

Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking

The Next Web
Social Media2 min read

TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

The Verge
Public Sector4 min read

Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix

The Next Web

Irish court tells regulator to reconsider TikTok’s China data-transfer ban

The Next Web

Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds

The Next Web

Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music

TechCrunch

Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre

The Next Web

Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn

The Next Web

The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable

The Next Web

The Guy Who Started the ‘Scientology Run’ TikTok Trend Says It’s Time to Stop

Gizmodo

EU says TikTok must disable ‘addictive’ features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine

TechCrunch
That's everything we have on TikTok right now