Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House that China wouldn't approve a deal until trade negotiations began
again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back Isaiah Richard / Tech Times : TikTok Ban Extension Reportedly Coming Again: POTUS Trump to Give It More Time After June 19 James Hale / Tubefilter ...
OpenAI says ChatGPT, API, and Sora traffic has largely recovered after a multi-hour outage, and that it is monitoring the situation to ensure full resolution
The website appears to be functioning normally again. Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : ChatGPT down for some users; iOS 18.2 integration affected Stephen Schenck / Android Authority : ChatGPT is down, as O...
Twitch now includes raids, which lets streamers who are going offline send viewers to others, in its average viewer count, easing the path to becoming a Partner
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Internal memo: YouTube is restructuring its creator management teams, including consolidating various sports, media, film, and TV teams into a single team
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Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy, effective immediately; Shear is a Justin.tv co-founder
My work on Twitch began in October 2006, when Justin, Michael … Jay Peters / The Verge : Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz : Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down K...
Discord renames Premium Memberships as Server Subscriptions and makes them available for all US creators; Discord will take a 10% cut of subscriptions
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Instagram adds a searchable map for exploring nearby popular tagged locations, which can be filtered by restaurants, cafes, beauty salons, and other categories
Searchable map on Instagram Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Instagram's trying to make it easier to find nearby businesses Stephanie Mlot / PCMag : Instagram's New Searchable Map Helps Find Local Hot Spo...
Instagram launches a new “payments in chat” feature in the US that lets users buy products with Meta Pay and track orders from small businesses via DMs
Right in Chat Finextra : Instagram adds payments in chat Curioso Mercado : Cripto volta a valer US$ 1 trilhão The Economic Times : Instagram to let shoppers pay for products via DM Andrew Hutchinson /...
Instagram adds more features to its paid subscriptions test for creators, including the ability to publish feed posts that are only visible to subscribers
Hello! Welcome back to another summer edition of Lab Weekly. Iskra Petrova / PhoneArena : Instagram Subscriptions announced: create exclusive content and increase your creator revenue Priya Singh / B...
App Annie: US Android users spent an average of 24.5 hours on TikTok in May vs. 22 hours on YouTube; in the UK, they spend 26 hours on TikTok and ~16 on YouTube
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