After Perplexity AI proposed a bid to acquire TikTok's US operations, Microsoft is eyeing to keep TikTok in the US.
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Marvel Snap was shut down after TikTok was banned due to links with ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok.
President Donald Trump has saved TikTok by signing an executive order. But the relief is still temporary.
As the new law banning TikTok was enacted in the US on January 19, the card game Marvel Snap also got caught up in the act.
TikTok has started its shutdown in the U.S., notifying users of the ban. An hour later, the notice was updated to reference Donald Trump.
TikTok could be a thing of the past, at least in the United States, as the Sunday deadline approaches for its possible shutdown.
January 19 is rapidly approaching for TikTok, and the company has denied reports from Bloomberg that it is planning to sell its U.S. operations to Elon Musk.
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is laying off hundreds of people and automating their work using AI to increase efficiency.
The attorneys generals in 13 US states, along with the District of Columbia, have filed lawsuits against TikTok claiming the social network is harming teenagers.
ByteDance is training its new AI model on Huawei's chips, which are inferior to the ones made by Nvidia, amid ongoing U.S. trade restrictions on exports to China.
Today, a federal appeals court will hear arguments from TikTok, its supporters, and the US government. The results could determine whether TikTok will be completely banned in the US.
TikTok is finally starting to roll out Group Chat support for up to 32 people in one group. The feature is not available for users aged 13-15, and 16 and 17-year-old users will have restrictions.
The US Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance. The DOJ claims TikTok has violated the country's Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
ByteDance is testing the Whee app, which focuses on private photo sharing between friends.It allows users to capture and share real life moments that are only visible to their close connections.
Tiktok said it will start labeling AI-generated content (AIGC) coming from other platforms. It has added support for Content Credentials, which is now rolling out on images and videos on the platform.
As expected, TikTok has filed a lawsuit against the US government, stating that its recently passed law that could lead to a ban of the social networking app is “unconstitutional.”
UMG and TikTok have resolved their months-long licensing dispute by signing a new agreement. The agreement includes improved royalty payments for artists and restrictions on AI-generated music.
President Joe Biden has now signed the TikTok bill into law. That means the social network's Chinese owners at ByteDance have 270 days to sell it, or the TikTok app could be banned from US app stores.
The US House of Representatives voted to pass another bill that could ban the use of TikTok in the country. The bill heads to the US Senate who could vote on it sometime next week.
TikTok seems to be working on a voice cloning feature for its app, according to a new report. Some code strings and the initial user interface were discovered in the latest version of TikTok.
Former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed he is getting partners together to try to buy TikTok. However, many analysts believe that the Chinese government won't allow such a deal.
The full House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that orders ByteDance to sell off its interest in TikTok or it will be banned from US app stores. The bill now heads to the US Senate.
A new report claims that Bobby Kotick, a former Activision Blizzard CEO, is trying to find partners to buy TikTok. Thanks to new legislation by Congress, the social network faces a ban in the US.
President Joe Biden told reporters today he will sign a bill, if it passes Congress, that will give ByteDance 165 days to sell TikTok, or else the social networking service will be banned in the US.
TikTok has launched a native app for Apple's Vision Pro. The redesigned experience optimizes TikTok videos to fill the entire field of view and places navigation elements for an immersive view.
TikTok is developing in-app local language Election Centers for 27 countries in the EU. This is among the other efforts it is making to tackle fake news and misinformation about the EU elections.
ByteDance's CEO has admitted that the company fell behind when it comes to generative AI. Liang Rubo said that the company has been growing recently and that this made it more bureaucratic.
Iowa's Attorney General is taking legal action against TikTok for having an incorrect age rating on stores such as Google Play Store which exposes young audiences to inappropriate content.
TikTok has become the first non-gaming app to generate $10 billion in consumer spending. The social media app crunched almost $4 billion in 2023, with a growth of 61% from where it started this year.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy issued a preliminary injunction today to block the state of Montana from enforcing its law that would have banned access to TikTok in that state on January. 1, 2024.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has confirmed it will "restructure our gaming business" and could lay off hundreds of its workers in that division as a result of those changes.
Governments across the world have imposed bans of varying degrees on TikTok, however, Nepal has gone further to ban the app across the entire country in a decision made in a cabinet meeting today.
The EU designated several tech giants as gatekeepers under the new DMA, including Microsoft, Google, and Apple. This imposes rules on core services like search, app store limits and more.
The US government proposed a contract with ByteDance last year that gave the government unprecedented powers over the app and the content in exchange for the app to continue in the country.
Nvidia has reportedly received multiple orders from Chinese companies valued at around $5 billion for the purchase of the company's A800 processor to fuel their Artificial Intelligence models.
TikTok announced its users can now create text posts in addition to video and image posts on the platform. The new format comes with a number of customizations such as tagging, hashtags, sounds, etc.
The European Commission has named the Big Tech companies that will be considered gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. They will be subject to rules to ensure they don't trample competition.
Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd. is working on a ChatGPT-style chatbot. As suggested by a company spokesperson, it is the first sign of the Chinese company stepping into the field of AI.
The Chinese Communist Party has access to global TikTok data according to Yintao Yu, a former executive at ByteDance. He said the party also has kill switches for ByteDance's Chinese apps.
Both the Montana Senate and House of Representatives have voted to completely ban TikTok inside the state's borders, and the bill is now being sent to the state's governor for his signature.