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WTF?! Machines' ability to generate fake videos of people has become alarmingly impressive. ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok, just showed off a new AI system called OmniHuman-1 that ...
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 ...
Amazon has told the White House it is interested in buying TikTok ahead of a key deadline by which its parent company, China-based ByteDance, must either sell the popular social media app or face ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The short-form video app TikTok may go dark for American users this week, but it may not be the only platform made unavailable in the U.S. But TikTok isn't the only platform that ByteDance created ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump cannot ignore a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the U.S. by early next year or ...