Kalley Huang

The creator economy is global, but many creators make content in only one language. To reach more fans, some creators are replacing the audio with a translated version, known as dubbing. But dubbing can cost as much as $75 per minute, according to Bunny Studio, which provides creative services ...

Meta Platforms will start testing multimodal artificial intelligence in its Ray-Ban smart glasses, chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth said in a post on Threads Tuesday. The test will be available through an opt-in early access program in the U.S., he said. Multimodal AI models understand and generate text, images and other mediums. This feature will “take advantage of the camera on the

During the pandemic, Serena Kerriganlivestreamed her dates on Instagram every week, introducing a new prospective mate each time. Over the course of 2020, she dated 50 people. The series, called “Let’s F—ing Date,” won her an audience that now totals 600,000 followers on TikTok and nearly ...

A federal judge on Thursday denied X its request to temporarily block a California law that requires social media companies to disclose how they moderate certain content on their platforms. The company formerly known as Twitter sued the state of California in September over the law, claiming that it violated free speech rights under the First Amendment. The law, AB 587, requires social media

In recent years, creators have made inroads into traditional entertainment through brand partnerships and other collaborations. One sign of that relationship: creators at mainstream media’s marquee events. For the last three years, YouTuber Emma Chamberlain has been a red carpet correspondent ...

Artifact, the news app created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, is shutting down, the company announced in a blog post Friday. The startup, which uses artificial intelligence to suggest news that people might be interested in, had launched in January 2023. “We have built something that a core group of users love, but we have concluded that the market opportunity isn’t

More than four years ago, Jess Maddox, an assistant professor of digital media at the University of Alabama, pitched a course to teach students how to create content. Her department wasn’t interested. This spring semester, she started teaching a course about just that.“It was important for me to ...

Careful readers of this newsletter may recall that Fanfix, which helps creators earn money directly from their followers through subscriptions and paid messaging, sued Passes, another fan subscription company, in Los Angeles County Superior Court earlier this month.I spent some time looking into ...

Senators grilled the CEOs of Meta Platforms, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord for four hours at a hearing about child sexual exploitation online on Wednesday, criticizing how their platforms allowed child sexual abuse material to spread and enabled the extortion of young people. The senators used the ...

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week posted a series of ultrarealistic and cinematic videos made by Sora, his company’s latest artificial intelligence technology, we imagined alarm bells ringing across the technology industry and, perhaps, Hollywood. Most of all, the videos should put fear in ...