TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s latest reasoning model products, as a global race intensified to create AI models capable of tackling complex problems.

Several ultrawealthy investors like Kevin O'Leary and Frank McCourt have expressed interest in buying TikTok — here's what they'd do with it.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

From new AI tools from OpenAI and Google Gemini to TikTok's ban in the US – here's everything you need to know from the last week.

When you think of AI’s contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the Google DeepMind protein-folding program that earned its creator a Nobel Prize last year. Now OpenAI says it’s getting into the science game too—with a model for engineering proteins.

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at the impacts of the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., including the “TikTok refugees” moving to

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States.

TikTok plans to remove its app from American users on Sunday in anticipation of a potential federal ban on the social media platform, according to the Information report. TakeAway Points: TikTok intends to withdraw its app from American users on Sunday in preparation for a possible government ban on the social media company.

VA warns: don't hide DEI programs targeted for termination. The top official at the Department of Veterans Affairs wants staff to report if they learn of efforts to disguise diver

While ByteDance has said they do not plan to sell their TikTok US operations, this has not stopped potential buyers from lining up to bid.

Both the Stargate announcement and the revocation of the AI safeguard Biden had put in place sparked widespread criticism from privacy and security experts.