TikTok is casting actors to make its own micro dramas as it jumps headfirst into the hot format

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TikTok is testing a new micro-drama feed, and its top shows feature AI zombies and gorillas in bikinis

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TikTok is building its own mini-drama feed, and many of the popular series are AI-generated.

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TikTok's global consumer marketing head is out as part of a new round of job cuts

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A top TikTok marketing exec is leaving to take a 'deliberate exhale'

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Sofia Hernandez, TikTok's global head of marketing and partnerships.
Sofia Hernandez, TikTok's global head of marketing and partnerships.

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I quit my job at TikTok at age 30 to travel. There was no way I was going to stay — the freedom is worth it.

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Read Netflix's legal letter to ByteDance over a viral AI video tool it calls a 'high-speed piracy engine'

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ByteDance's new AI-powered video tool has created clips resembling characters like Will Byers from Netflix's "Stranger Things."

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ByteDance says it's going to make it harder for Seedance to make AI videos of copyrighted movie characters

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ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 tool has been used to create realistic AI-generated videos of Hollywood stars.

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'Tom Cruise' and 'Brad Pitt' fight over Epstein in viral AI video created with new Chinese tool

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AI recreations of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fight on a rooftop.
Seedance 2.0, a new AI video generation tool from ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, can create hyper-realistic version of Hollywood actors and characters, sparking copyright concerns.

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The TikTok deal is done. Here's what will change and what will stay the same.

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TikTok app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022
TikTok app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022

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TikTok is splitting its US staff into different companies as it prepares for a sale

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