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• TikTok knows some users are fed up with AI content, so it’s letting them choose how much of it they see
• Facebook creators can use a new content protection tool to say “stop copying me”

  Facebook's "content protection" tool resembles YouTube's Content ID. It can identify copycat videos and bring them to creators' attention.

  
• Google wants to make lots of money off AI. Its CEO still says not to trust chatbots.

  Just today, YouTube and Google parent Alphabet introduced the latest version of its "AI assistant," Gemini 3. CEO Sundar Pichai described it as "our most powerful agentic + vibe coding model yet" with "state-of-the-art in reasoning, built to grasp depth and nuance."

  
• After a string of child safety lawsuits, Roblox is age-checking everyone who wants to chat with other users

  After a string of lawsuits from families whose children were preyed upon on Roblox, as well as concerned state Attorneys General, the platform is introducing automated age verification that will prevent child and teen users from speaking to anyone outside their immediate age group.

  
• Agentio raises $40 million to build the “infrastructure” that powers the creator marketing industry
• Baby Shark is everywhere, even on the stock market
• With new web series called ‘Making It,’ Cricket Wireless roots for the underdogs
• RHEI’s creator productivity AI agents go global
• Theorist’s staff wants to unionize with the WGA and Motion Picture Editors Guild. It declined to voluntarily recognize them.
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• YouTube gives advertisers a sneak peek of top creators’ next projects at its first “Premieres” showcase
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