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AI Regulations: EU Probes, Unilever Prepares, Utah Innovates
artificial intelligence // July 30, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) regulation takes center stage as the EU investigates X’s (formerly Twitter) data practices, Unilever adopts a proactive stance and Utah targets mental health chatbots. These moves signal a shifting landscape in AI governance across the tech, business and healthcare sectors. EU Regulator...

Musk Polls X Users: Should Tesla Invest in AI?
artificial intelligence // July 24, 2024

Elon Musk is asking users of his social media platform if his car company should invest in his AI platform. The world’s richest man launched the non-binding, informal poll on X — formerly Twitter — late Tuesday (July 23), hours after saying during an earnings presentation that Tesla would...

X Growth Reportedly Slows Since Musk Takeover
Social Commerce // July 09, 2024

User growth at X has reportedly slowed since Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (July 9), the social media platform once known as Twitter is dealing with new competition from Meta-owned Threads, while Musk’s presence continues to be divisive....

Threads Gains 175 Million Users in First Year
Meta // July 03, 2024

About a year after its launch, Threads has topped 175 million monthly active users. “Threads now has more than 175M monthly actives. What a year,” Meta Founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Wednesday (July 3) post on the text-based social media platform....

Interviews & Exclusives
Toys, Pet Products Expected to Fuel Retail Sales on Social Media 

November 08, 2023
Consumers are becoming increasingly connected on social media, and retailers are taking notice. In a bid to grow engagement and sales, merchants have taken to social media platforms to promote their wares. In turn, these platforms have made it increasingly easy for consumers to buy things they like instantly. For instance, TikTok launched TikTok Shop […]

Adobe, Microsoft Lead Coalition to Source Origin of AI Content

October 11, 2023
Fake news is getting more real, and so is the problem for companies and their audiences. That’s because as the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI) advance, the images and...

What If: Elon Musk’s X Becomes the Next Super App?

August 03, 2023
Super apps like Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat have become super successful in Asia. Their market dominance in turn has made Western entrepreneurs “super” interested in building their own, perhaps...

Threads Is Social Media’s Newest Nepo Baby, but Does It Have Staying Power?

July 13, 2023
Is the social media landscape too crowded? The winners of today’s attention economy don’t seem to think so. That’s why Meta, the parent company of social behemoth Facebook, last week...

Quick Reads
Musk’s X Payments on Hold After Legal Threat in NY

October 27, 2024
Last year, Elon Musk made a bold prediction about the future of his social media platform. Instead of just being a place where people shared thoughts and content, X — rebranded from Twitter a few months earlier — would become a payments super app. “It would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled […]

Musk Polls X Users: Should Tesla Invest in AI?

July 24, 2024
Elon Musk is asking users of his social media platform if his car company should invest in his AI platform. The world’s richest man launched the non-binding, informal poll on X —...

X Growth Reportedly Slows Since Musk Takeover

July 09, 2024
User growth at X has reportedly slowed since Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (July 9), the social media platform once known as Twitter...

Threads Gains 175 Million Users in First Year

July 03, 2024
About a year after its launch, Threads has topped 175 million monthly active users. “Threads now has more than 175M monthly actives. What a year,” Meta Founder, Chairman and CEO...