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How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse
A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on ...
The Information5d
ByteDance’s 2024 Revenue Shows Importance of TikTok
ByteDance’s revenue from international operations, which are primarily TikTok, rose 63% to $39 billion in 2024, said a person ...
The Straits Times1d
How TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, became an AI powerhouse
such as tools to analyse information and the algorithms that recommend videos. Some of these services were natural applications of the technology that ByteDance developed for Douyin and TikTok ...
The Economist5d
TikTok’s bizarre sale process gets even weirder
America’s demand that TikTok sever ties with its Chinese parent, ByteDance, started as a principled national-security policy. It has descended into a seedy free-for-all. Allies of the president are ...
The Associated Press on MSN6d
China Hit Brakes on TikTok Deal After Trump Announced Wide-Ranging Tariffs
President Trump signs executive order extending TikTok's U.S. operations amid ongoing negotiations and Chinese pushback.
China says any TikTok deal has to comply with Chinese law
China on Wednesday said that any deal for TikTok had to comply with Chinese law, reiterating an earlier stance when asked ...
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Alibaba’s Quark surpasses ByteDance’s Doubao, DeepSeek as China’s top AI app
Alibaba Group Holding’s revamped artificial intelligence (AI) assistant app, Quark, which offers a user-friendly interface, has surpassed ByteDance’s Doubao to become China’s most popular AI ...
The Straits Times3d
TikTok drives ByteDance’s 29% revenue growth while China business slows
BEIJING – ByteDance’s revenue jumped 29 per cent to US$155 billion (S$208 billion) in 2024, after online video phenomenon TikTok drove a worldwide expansion that helped offset an economic ...