The July 11 UFC main stream featuring the 69-second fight between Conor McGregor and Max Holloway averaged 6.5 million viewers in the U.S. and Latin America on Paramount+. That combined statistic is according to Nielsen in the US and Adobe Analytic + Channel Partner in Latin America. The two-and-a-half-hour stream peaked at 8 million simultaneous
TikTok is taking control as it looks to grow its e-commerce business. The company is rolling out a new managed services program in the US that will give it much more control over the performance of some of its e-commerce sellers, according to documentation seen by Business Insider. The company is currently seeking participants for
OpenAI’s Sora may have gone out of business, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will let you create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on
A White House teleprompter operator is being investigated for allegedly using inside information to place bets and make nearly $100,000 on US President Donald Trump’s speeches. Gabriel Pérez, who had worked in the White House since 2016, is accused of placing bets on the words the president would use during major public speeches, including the
Whatever its other benefits, Santa Monica hasn’t been a big music destination since the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium stopped hosting concerts and especially since the coastal city’s famous Twilight Series on the Pier came to an end a dozen years ago. But tens of thousands of music enthusiasts from across the Southern California area can
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s toughest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new artificial intelligence model that powers Memo, its wheeled
