<p>TikTok content creator Kelley Heyer sued the video game Roblox for using her dance to Charli XCX&#8217;s &#8220;Apple&#8221; without permission. Heyer posted the viral dance in June 2024, which fed off of the hype of Charli XCX&#8217;s hit summer album &#8220;Brat.&#8221; The dance became so popular that Charli XCX incorporated it into her live show [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instagram on Thursday announced that it&#8217;s rolling out Blend, a new feature that lets you create a custom, personalized reels feed for you and your friends. Blends are invite-only and can be created with a singular friend or with a group chat. The custom feeds are refreshed with new content each day. The launch doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There&#8217;s a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures. This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely &#8220;reason&#8221; through uploaded images. In practice, the models can crop, rotate, and zoom in on photos — even blurry [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Meta&#8217;s antitrust trial on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified that TikTok&#8217;s success was a risk to Meta&#8217;s business, saying the short-form video app was a &#8220;top priority&#8221; and a &#8220;highly urgent&#8221; competitive threat when it arrived in 2018, according to Bloomberg and other outlets. The reports come from a packed first week of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>During Meta&#8217;s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company&#8217;s offer to buy the social network back in 2013, Business Insider reports. Court documents revealed that Meta, then called Facebook, offered to buy Snapchat for $6 billion (reports at the time said that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky&#8217;s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures, have invested $1 million in the company&#8217;s small team, which is working to give users control over their algorithms and social media experiences. Graze&#8217;s software, available via the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TikTok is testing a new &#8220;Footnotes&#8221; feature that works similarly to Community Notes on X. The social network announced on Wednesday that Footnotes will allow users to add additional context and relevant information to videos to help others better understand certain content, starting in the United States. The company says Footnotes will complement its current [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Patreon is finally experimenting with native livestreaming, a new feature that could attract more creators and help them earn more money. The capability is rolling out to select testers this week and will become more widely available this summer.  Similar to other platforms, Patreon’s new livestream feature comes with a live chat where fans can [&hellip;]</p>

<p>X has not been faring well in the U.K., which used to be a major source of revenue for the social network prior to Elon Musk’s takeover. Still named Twitter UK Ltd, revenues and profits for X&#8217;s U.K. entity collapsed by over 60% in 2023, according to accounts filed this week with the U.K.’s Companies [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As TikTok continues to build out its search experience, the social network is now surfacing reviews for select places right within the comments tab of a video. The new feature, which appears to be a test, eliminates the need to conduct a new search or open Google when you come across a place on TikTok [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI is building its own X-like social media network, according to a new report from The Verge. The project is still in the early stages, but there&#8217;s an internal prototype focused on&nbsp;ChatGPT’s image generation that contains a social feed. The report states that it&#8217;s unknown if OpenAI plans to launch the social network as a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting everyone&#8217;s Facebook friends in an effort to boost the social network&#8217;s cultural relevance. This &#8220;potentially crazy idea,&#8221; as the exec called it at the time, was revealed on Monday as a part of the evidence introduced during the first day of the U.S. government&#8217;s antitrust trial against Meta. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.” X’s current owner, Elon Musk, quickly replied, “I agree.” It’s not clear what exactly brought these comments on, but they come at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review! We&#8217;ve got tons of cool stuff for your reading pleasure this week: Jeff Bezos backs EV startup Slate; a Meta whistleblower accuses the company of collusion; Waymo may use interior camera data; and much more. Let&#8217;s get to it! I want this: Slate, an EV startup, has the ambitious [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X, in an all-stock deal, it raised some eyebrows. But in many ways, the deal made sense. Grok, xAI’s chatbot, was already deeply integrated with X, which was floundering financially, and Musk needed a way to make his $44 billion [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Banking executive and former presidential advisor Dina Powell McCormick and Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison are joining the board of Meta, according to a report from Axios. Powell McCormick spent 16 years in several leadership roles at Goldman Sachs. She also served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump during his [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ireland’s data regulator, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), said Friday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the social media platform’s use of personal data collected from European users to train Grok. The DPC will investigate how X processes personal data &#8220;comprised&#8221; in publicly accessible posts by European users for the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It&#8217;s time for BeReal to get real &#8212; it&#8217;s difficult to turn a profit on a social photo-sharing app without selling ads or memberships. Now, after its €500 million exit to French mobile publisher Voodoo, BeReal is rolling out advertising in the U.S. Its initial products include in-feed ads in the app&#8217;s same dual-camera post [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social network Bluesky is rolling out a new version of its software, which adopts some of the features former X users have missed. Nope, it&#8217;s not an edit button! Instead, the open social network is adding support for chat reactions in its direct messages feature and is revamping its search page as &#8220;Explore,&#8221; directing users [&hellip;]</p>