The Chinese parent of TikTok has kept a safe distance from the troubles facing its short video app in the US, leaving the response to the local team and Singaporean CEO Chew Shou Zi as they face a possible legal battle against a forced sale...
Chinese social media platform Weibo has deleted a number of accounts publishing and spreading a retouched photo of a grey-haired and wrinkle-faced Pony Ma Huateng, Tencent Holdings’ founder and CEO, in the latest example of efforts to protect the country’s top entrepreneurs from online abuse.“A...
Beijing-based ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier, according to a search conducted by the South China Morning Post.A specific search for jobs in the development of large language models (LLMs) –...
The bill is headed to the US Senate, where both Democratic and Republican leaders have rejected the idea of fast-tracking its passage. 03:10Protests at US Congress after House passes bill that could potentially ban TikTok nationwideProtests at US Congress after House passes bill that could potentially...
ByteDance, the Chinese tech unicorn that is again facing a US ban of its flagship TikTok app unless it divests, has earned a “thumbs up” at home after rallying its young users against the legislation in an effort mirroring some of the more aggressive tactics...
A bipartisan bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday that would give ByteDance 165 days to divest TikTok, or else the app would no longer be available on US app stores or be accessible on web-hosting services in the country.The Chinese...
ByteDance is “secretly” working on multiple AI products, including text-to-image and text-to-video technology, according to a report on Wednesday by Chinese media outlet Jiemian.The team responsible for video-editing app CapCut, managed by Kelly Zhang Nan – former CEO of the Douyin unit, which oversees TikTok’s...
Zhang Yiming, the billionaire founder of TikTok parent ByteDance, has asked a village in his home province to remove a stone tablet that called him a “spiritual idol”, according to local media reports.Images of a stone tablet dedicated to 40-year-old Zhang began to circulate on...
The chief executive of ByteDance, owner of TikTok and its mainland sibling Douyin, berated employees for “not being sensitive enough” to the emergence of new technologies such as ChatGPT.In an internal meeting on Tuesday, CEO Liang Rubo said staff only began discussing ChatGPT in 2023,...
The chief executive of ByteDance, owner of TikTok and its Chinese sibling Douyin, said the company lacks a sense of crisis, which has made the Chinese social media giant slow and inefficient in the face of fierce competition.That introspection was made...