Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, in our series that looks at themes to watch in 2026, Alexandra S. Levine reports that Australia’s law to ban minors from social media is unlikely to trigger a global wave of similar restrictions sought by child-safety advocates.
A notification on the Instagram app in Sydney. Australia on Dec. 10 imposed a ban on social media for those younger than 16.
The yearslong saga over the future of TikTok’s American operations could finally be nearing a conclusion. The social media platform says its US arm is being bought by a consortium led by Oracle Corp., aligning with the deal outlined by the Trump administration in September.
A man walks past a Tiktok booth during the 2024 Appliance & Electronics World Expo in Shanghai. Photographer: AFP/Getty Images
TikTok’s long-delayed plan to separate from Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. was put in motion Thursday when the video sharing sensation said it’s being bought by a group of buyers led by Oracle Corp.
The TikTok logo. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Alexandra S. Levine reports on TikTok’s effort to raise the profile of its creators with a Hollywood-style awards show.
The TikTok logo arranged on a smartphone in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. Australia will soon ban its youth from popular services like TikTok and Instagram, becoming the world’s first democracy to carry out such a crackdown in response to growing concerns about social media’s harms.
Kim Kardashian logged onto TikTok earlier this month and did something new: Tried to sell pajamas, slippers and matching sweat sets like the host of an old-fashioned TV infomercial.
Kim Kardashian Photographer: Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Monique Hinton se frota los dedos en uno de sus videos recientes de YouTube, indicando a su más de un millón de seguidores en la plataforma que les tiene una idea de negocio rentable. Primero, le pidió a ChatGPT que reprodujera letras de canciones infantiles “simples y repetitivas” con “palabras divertidas y sin sentido como ‘la la’ o ‘na na’”, por ejemplo. Luego, ingresó los resultados en un generador de videos de inteligencia artificial independiente. Minutos después, la herramienta lo había e
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Alexandra S. Levine follows her report on the growing use of AI videos on YouTube aimed at children younger than 2 years old.
The fastest-growing group of children viewers on YouTube are younger than 2 years old, according to Pew Research Center data.
As younger children spend more time on the platform, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
TikTok is moving into luxury retail, part of an effort to expand its TikTok Shop marketplace into a high-end shopping destination for purses and watches that can fetch thousands of dollars.
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