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TikTok Deal Stalls as China Pushes Back Against Trump’s 54% Tariff Surge
A proposed deal to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok has been formally put on hold after the Chinese government indicated it would not grant…
China’s Approval of TikTok Sale Could Ease U.S. Tariffs, Says Trump
President Donald Trump has indicated that China could receive relief from U.S. tariffs if it approves a deal for ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. operations.…
TikTok’s Desktop Update Enhances Game Streaming with Landscape Mode
The fate of TikTok in the US is still uncertain, so the company owned by ByteDance thought now would be a good time to improve…
ByteDance Unveils Goku AI, Challenging OpenAI’s Market Dominance
ByteDance, the tech giant behind TikTok, has officially launched Goku AI, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence model designed for image and video generation. The introduction of…
Elon Musk: No Plans to Buy TikTok
Elon Musk, a billionaire, has stated that he is not interested in buying out ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the popular short-video app TikTok,…
ByteDance Introduces OmniHuman-1: AI-Powered Realistic Video Generator
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has unveiled OmniHuman-1, an advanced artificial intelligence technology that can create lifelike human films using only a single shot. This AI…
Trump Gets TikTok Back for US Users
The U.S. version of TikTok is back online just hours after Donald Trump’s inauguration, fulfilling his promise to save the app from a government ban…
TikTok US Merger Proposed by Perplexity AI to Avoid Potential Ban
In a strategic move to avert a ban, Perplexity AI, a search engine startup, has merged its US operations with TikTok’s American division. This offer…
TikTok Shuts Down for U.S. Users Ahead of Potential Ban
Before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app could take effect, TikTok went dark in the US on Saturday, cutting off access to a…
RedNote Takes Over as TikTok Faces Possible US Ban
As TikTok faces a looming shutdown in less than a week, a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu, or RedNote in English, is rapidly gaining popularity in…
TikTok US Sale to Elon Musk Likely Before Ban Implementation
Chinese officials are considering a potential deal that could see Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the popular short-video app fails to…
Is TikTok’s Popularity at Risk? Ban Expected by January 2025
The United States federal appeals court has affirmed a statute mandating that ByteDance, a Chinese-owned entity, divest its widely-used short-video application, TikTok, by January 19th,…
New York City Bans TikTok on all Government Issued Devices
Effective immediately, the new TikTok ban has left agencies with just 30 days to delete the application from all city-owned hardware New York City has…
