TikTok’s product, policy battles, and place in the creator economy.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters ·
Google (GOOGL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended …
Sam Tobin / Reuters ·
Meta (META.O), TikTok and X lost a legal challenge against British regulator Ofcom on Friday over information requests made under …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·
Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the "For You" feed popularized by TikTok. The company announced on Wednesday that users will now see two options …
Financial Times ·
Axel Springer boss Mathias Döpfner raised idea over lunch with US ambassador to France Charles Kushner.
Katie McQue / NPR ·
TikTok employees repeatedly raised concerns internally about the risks the short-form video app posed to children …
Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center ·
TikTok is primarily known for short-form video sharing, but it has also become a common place for many people to get news.
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg ·
Australia to Sue Social Media Firms on Alleged Breaches
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter ·
Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
Bloomberg ·
One flagship AI data center in Norway is six months behind schedule, with workers set to be housed in a floating hotel to get it over the finish line.
Bloomberg ·
ByteDance Ltd. is close to an agreement to buy MediaTek Inc. data center semiconductors, a deal that would secure vital components …
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / Politico ·
In the months before TikTok finalized a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors friendly to President Donald Trump …
Katharine Schwab / Forbes ·
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Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance Ltd., the former controlling owner of TikTok, intensifying the competition with the popular social video site.
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters ·
TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions …
Bloomberg ·
A former ByteDance Ltd. intern has secured funding from venture heavyweights including 5Y Capital for a stealth startup …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·
TikTok announced Monday that it's launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands.
Vanity Fair ·
The $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to many hubs of influence
Qianer Liu / The Information ·
China's government has signaled it could allow some domestic companies to buy a new Nvidia chip built for high-end professional computers …
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter ·
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls.
Gnaneshwar Rajan / Reuters ·
TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have reached a settlement with Alabama over allegations they designed the platform …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·
Amazon is introducing tools to let independent sellers manage their sales on four of its biggest rivals
Financial Times ·
Chinese tech giant was AI cloud provider's largest customer last year but is not prominently named in pitch to stock market investors
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch ·
Eight months after it was spun out of TikTok, the social media platform's U.S. unit, known as TikTok USDS Joint Venture …
Bloomberg ·
Tencent Holdings Ltd. launched its latest and best image-generation model on the same day as rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. kicked off …
Bloomberg ·
ByteDance's Zhang Yiming has become Asia's richest person for the first time, marking a comeback for the TikTok developer …
Kane Wu / Reuters ·
Chinese social media and internet company ByteDance has completed a $290 million fundraising for its AI drugmaking unit after spinning …
The Information ·
ByteDance's net profit in the first half of this year declined by a single-digit percentage to $20 billion, as the Chinese tech giant ramped …
Sara Fischer / Axios ·
TikTok has rejected ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other tech platforms to join Meta in settling with U.S. state attorneys general …
Christian Terry / Click2Houston.com ·
State will now proceed to trial to determine relief and penalties
Bloomberg ·
ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc …
Bloomberg ·
ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, has secured a $29.6 billion loan, according to people familiar with the matter …
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill ·
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) announced a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Snap, the parent company of Snapchat …
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg ·
Eight months after implementing a ban on under-16s accessing social media services like TikTok, Australia finds its younger users …
Bloomberg ·
ByteDance Ltd. is consolidating the resources behind two of its artificial intelligence developer products to bolster China's …
Ashley Gold / Axios ·
The Justice Department and TikTok, along with parent company ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations of violating children's online privacy laws …
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters ·
A teen girl whose lawsuit was a test case in litigation accusing social media companies of deliberately addicting young people …
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg ·
Two US senators have sent a letter to TikTok executives demanding answers about an experiment the company ran …
Iain Martin / Forbes ·
TikTok's operations in Europe, Africa and Latin America saw revenues jump 45.7% to $9.1 billion and turn its first profit …
Zijing Wu / Financial Times ·
Beijing permits small shipments to help leading tech groups in drive to catch up with US rivals
Emma Roth / The Verge ·
By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram.
New York Times ·
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in about 90 deaths.
Financial Times ·
TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC ·
SoftBank on Thursday reported profit for its fiscal first quarter that beat market expectations, driven by a huge gain on its stake in Intel …
Emmett Lindner / New York Times ·
The office was home to members of the app's content moderation team.
The Information ·
ByteDance won't resort to distillation as a shortcut to advancing its AI model capabilities, even if that means …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times ·
Disney said it would allow "thoughtfully curated" fan-created videos, using clips from its library, to appear on the streaming service.
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg ·
A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users "by design," as part of an experiment to measure engagement.