MY JOURNEY ON TikTok Shop started out with a search for “hip hop jewelry.” It’s an innocuous search query multiple users have likely typed in, hoping to find something to wear. While browsing the cheap jewelry, I was struck by what TikTok’s algorithm repeatedly suggested that I might also be interested in: jewelry with blatant Nazi symbolism.
Källa: TikTok Shop Showed Me Search Suggestions for Products With Nazi Symbolism
The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says he has been informed that Elon Musk’s X is ”acting to ensure full compliance with UK law” over sexualised deepfakes produced by its AI tool, Grok.
There has been a fierce backlash to the images made using Grok and widely shared on X.
Women whose images have been digitally undressed using the tool have told the BBC the experience has been humiliating and dehumanising.
It prompted the regulator Ofcom to launch an investigation on Monday and the government to announce it will enforce a law criminalising the creation of non-consensual deepfakes, with the prime minister warning X it could lose the right to self regulate.
The BBC has approached X for comment.
Källa: X to comply with UK law over Grok deepfakes, Starmer says
A new report shows that U.S. patent activity continued its multi-year decline in 2025, with Apple dropping to seventh place after receiving 2,722 grants, a 11% decrease from 2024. Here are the details.
Parent filings and grants decline for the sixth consecutive year
Patent data and analytics company IFI CLAIMS has published its yearly report on U.S. patent activity, and concluded that “for the third year running, the principal story of corporate innovation has been the dash to invest in artificial intelligence”.
According to the report, the U.S. saw 393,344 patent applications in 2025, a 8.6% decline from 2024, while patent grants slipped 0.2% to 323,272.
Källa: Apple drops to 7th in patent rankings for 2025 as grants fall 11% – 9to5Mac
Last month, Instagram began rolling out a new set of controls that allowed users to personalize the topics recommended to them by the Reels algorithm. Now, Meta is making that feature available to all English users of the app globally, along with the ability to highlight their top topics for the coming year.
The feature begins with a selection of topics Meta’s AI thinks you’re interested in based on your recent activity, and has controls to remove them or add new categories. There’s also a separate field for identifying what you want to see less of, and a new ”build your 2026 algorithm” that allows you to highlight three topics in particular.
Källa: Instagram wants you to personalize your Reels algorithm for 2026
Several of Meta’s VR studios have been affected by the company’s metaverse-focused layoffs. The company has shuttered three of its VR studios, including Armature, Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel. VR fitness app Supernatural will no longer be updated with fresh content.
Employees at Twisted Pixel, which released Marvel’s Deadpool VR in November, and Sanzaru, known for Asgard’s Wrath, posted on social media about the closures. Bloomberg reported that Armature, which brought Resident Evil 4 to Quest back in 2021 has also closed and that the popular VR fitness app Supernatural will no longer get updates.
Källa: Meta has closed three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Jim Rockford may be going back onto the streets of Los Angeles.
NBC has ordered a pilot for an update on The Rockford Files, the beloved private eye series that starred James Garner. The project comes from Universal Television, which produced the original 1974-80 series, and writer Mike Daniels (NBC’s The Village, Sons of Anarchy).
Also Tuesday, NBC ordered a pilot for Protection, a drama centered on a law enforcement family targeted by an assassin. Also from Universal TV, the pilot is written by Josh Safran (Gossip Girl, Quantico) and counts Today fourth hour co-host Jenna Bush Hager among its executive producers.
