TikTok names former Boeing vice president of government affairs Ziad Ojakli as the platform’s head of public policy for the Americas. As TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance works to complete the ...

Australian studio launches Hangzhou subsidiary led by Vincent Cui; first cross-border production filming in Hangzhou and Brisbane from December 2025, targeting Christmas and Lunar New Year release ...

President Joe Biden passed legislation this spring that would ban the distribution of TikTok in the U.S., if the platform's parent company, ByteDance, doesn't sell it before Jan. 19, 2025. A federal ...

Last year, most lawmakers deemed the Chinese tech giant ByteDance a national security risk and banned its apps. Now, under a Trump reprieve, it’s shipping new apps anyway. In 2024, Congress passed a ...

The U.S. could be about to force ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, to divest its U.S. business or effectively ban the app. But a sale looks unlikely — not least because China is ...

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion, after it recently approached investors about a share buyback program, according to two people familiar with the matter and a ...

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 a ...

It’s not just TikTok users and TikTok creators whose sensitive data has been mishandled by TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance—it’s TikTok advertisers, too, a Forbes investigation ...

OpenAI has suspended the account of TikTok parent ByteDance following a report that the China-owned firm was “secretly” using its “GPT” AI technology to build its own rival chatbot service. ByteDance, ...

ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is back in the news. The company recently offered to buy back its stock from its employees, but the issue is, it’s valuing itself at around $223 billion, which ...

The company released Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model, which it claims outperforms OpenAI’s o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to ...