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OpenAI has suspended the account of TikTok parent ByteDance following a report that the China-owned firm was “secretly” using its “GPT” AI technology to build its own rival chatbot service.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - President Donald Trump said he would extend the deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok, the short video app used by 170 million Americans ...
A report claims ByteDance, the creators of TikTok, is pushing to create a pair of AI smart glasses. The company is focusing on ensuring the gadget can capture "decent-quality" images and video ...
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a private global company founded by Chinese entrepreneurs. According to TikTok, about 60% of the parent company is owned by global institutional investors ...
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion, after it recently approached investors about a share buyback program, according to two people familiar with the matter ...
After rumors swirled that TikTok owner ByteDance had lost tens of millions after an intern sabotaged its AI models, ByteDance issued a statement this weekend hoping to silence all the social media ...
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is further scaling back its ambitions in the gaming industry and is in talks to sell game titles to several prospective buyers. Chinese media LatePost reported ...
Some social media users who fear the looming TikTok ban say they may pivot to Lemon8, a TikTok sister app with similar features—but Lemon8 was also developed by the Chinese company ByteDance ...
President Donald Trump said late Monday he hoped there would be a “bidding war” for TikTok, claiming Microsoft is now among the companies interested in buying ByteDance’s popular social ...
TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users. Shortly before the federally ...
Chinese-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok asked an appeals court Monday to temporarily block a law that would require parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok by January 19 or face a ...
A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet. By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from ...