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Trump's 'Wealthy' TikTok Buyer Is Same Group Behind A Previous Stalled Bid
The prospective buyer of TikTok's American operations cited by President Donald Trump is the same investor consortium including Oracle Corp., Blackstone Inc. and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
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Meta, TikTok Can Be Sued By Mother Of New York Teen Killed While 'Subway Surfing'
Meta Platforms and TikTok owner ByteDance must face a wrongful death lawsuit by the mother of a 15-year-old Manhattan boy who died while "subway surfing" on a moving train, a New York state judge ruled.
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"Have A Buyer For TikTok," Says Trump But He Won't Divulge Name
President Donald Trump said he has identified a buyer for the US operations of TikTok, the social media app owned by Chinese company ByteDance Ltd., but he won't provide details for two weeks.
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Trump Extends Deadline for US TikTok Sale to September
US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the US assets of short-video app TikTok. Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday's deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously signaled.
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Trump To Extend TikTok Sale Deadline For Third Time
US President Donald Trump will extend a June 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short video app TikTok by 90 days despite a law that had mandated a sale or a shutdown absent significant progress.
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ByteDance Unveils Bagel Open Source Multimodal AI Model With Support for Generating, Editing Images
ByteDance released a new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. Dubbed Bagel, it is a visual language model (VLM), which is capable of image understanding, generation, and editing. The Beijing-based tech giant has open-sourced the model, and it is available to download via popular AI repositories such as GitHub and Hugging Face.
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Quark, China's Most Popular AI App, Launches 'Deep Search' Feature For Users
Quark is not the first in the country to combine AI reasoning with online search. Similar features were earlier announced by the Kimi chatbot from Moonshot AI.
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TikTok Fined $600 Million By EU Regulator Over Data Protection Concerns
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator on Friday over concerns on how it protects user information.
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ByteDance Confirms US Talks on TikTok After Trump Gives 75-Day Extension for Deal to Save App
ByteDance confirmed it’s in discussions with the US government about plans to keep TikTok running in the US. For the second time now, US President Donald Trump extended a deadline for the Chinese company to divest the app’s American operations. The latest extension permits the president to give a “one-time extension of not more than 90 days.
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TikTok Owner ByteDance Says "Key Matters" Remain Over US Deal
TikTok owner ByteDance on Friday said key matters still needed addressing to secure a solution for the video-sharing app's US business in order to avert a ban in the United States.
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Amazon Submits Bid to Buy TikTok, Adding 11th Hour Intrigue to Acquisition Drama
Amazon.com became the latest big name to jump into the fray, submitting a bid to the White House to buy out a business once valued at $60 billion (roughly Rs. 5,13,272 crore).
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OnlyFans Founder, Crypto Foundation Submit Late-Stage Bid To Buy TikTok
A startup run by Tim Stokely, founder of adult content social media site OnlyFans, has partnered with a cryptocurrency foundation to submit a late-stage plan to acquire short video app TikTok from Chinese owner ByteDance, the two said on Wednesday.
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Donald Trump Tells His Plans For TikTok's Future In US As April 5 Deadline Looms
The future of TikTok in the United States seems secure, as US President Donald Trump said a deal with the short video app's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell it would be struck before a deadline on Saturday.
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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Joins Frank McCourt’s Bid for TikTok
Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and a venture capitalist, has joined his bid to acquire TikTok's US operations. The former Los Angeles Dodgers owner and his partners submitted a bid for TikTok in early January, as a deadline approached that would require ByteDance to sell the app to a US owner or face a ban.
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China's Baidu to Make Latest Ernie AI Model Open-Source as Competition Heats Up
Baidu CEO Robin Li had long advocated for closed-source models as the only viable path for AI development, but the advent of DeepSeek has upended the sector. The startup offers open-source AI services that it claims are comparable in performance to US pioneer OpenAI's advanced systems but come with a lower operational cost.
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Trump's 'Wealthy' TikTok Buyer Is Same Group Behind A Previous Stalled Bid
The prospective buyer of TikTok's American operations cited by President Donald Trump is the same investor consortium including Oracle Corp., Blackstone Inc. and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
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Meta, TikTok Can Be Sued By Mother Of New York Teen Killed While 'Subway Surfing'
Meta Platforms and TikTok owner ByteDance must face a wrongful death lawsuit by the mother of a 15-year-old Manhattan boy who died while "subway surfing" on a moving train, a New York state judge ruled.
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"Have A Buyer For TikTok," Says Trump But He Won't Divulge Name
President Donald Trump said he has identified a buyer for the US operations of TikTok, the social media app owned by Chinese company ByteDance Ltd., but he won't provide details for two weeks.
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Trump Extends Deadline for US TikTok Sale to September
US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the US assets of short-video app TikTok. Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday's deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously signaled.
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Trump To Extend TikTok Sale Deadline For Third Time
US President Donald Trump will extend a June 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short video app TikTok by 90 days despite a law that had mandated a sale or a shutdown absent significant progress.
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ByteDance Unveils Bagel Open Source Multimodal AI Model With Support for Generating, Editing Images
ByteDance released a new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. Dubbed Bagel, it is a visual language model (VLM), which is capable of image understanding, generation, and editing. The Beijing-based tech giant has open-sourced the model, and it is available to download via popular AI repositories such as GitHub and Hugging Face.
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Quark, China's Most Popular AI App, Launches 'Deep Search' Feature For Users
Quark is not the first in the country to combine AI reasoning with online search. Similar features were earlier announced by the Kimi chatbot from Moonshot AI.
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TikTok Fined $600 Million By EU Regulator Over Data Protection Concerns
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator on Friday over concerns on how it protects user information.
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ByteDance Confirms US Talks on TikTok After Trump Gives 75-Day Extension for Deal to Save App
ByteDance confirmed it’s in discussions with the US government about plans to keep TikTok running in the US. For the second time now, US President Donald Trump extended a deadline for the Chinese company to divest the app’s American operations. The latest extension permits the president to give a “one-time extension of not more than 90 days.
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TikTok Owner ByteDance Says "Key Matters" Remain Over US Deal
TikTok owner ByteDance on Friday said key matters still needed addressing to secure a solution for the video-sharing app's US business in order to avert a ban in the United States.
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Amazon Submits Bid to Buy TikTok, Adding 11th Hour Intrigue to Acquisition Drama
Amazon.com became the latest big name to jump into the fray, submitting a bid to the White House to buy out a business once valued at $60 billion (roughly Rs. 5,13,272 crore).
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OnlyFans Founder, Crypto Foundation Submit Late-Stage Bid To Buy TikTok
A startup run by Tim Stokely, founder of adult content social media site OnlyFans, has partnered with a cryptocurrency foundation to submit a late-stage plan to acquire short video app TikTok from Chinese owner ByteDance, the two said on Wednesday.
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Donald Trump Tells His Plans For TikTok's Future In US As April 5 Deadline Looms
The future of TikTok in the United States seems secure, as US President Donald Trump said a deal with the short video app's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell it would be struck before a deadline on Saturday.
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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Joins Frank McCourt’s Bid for TikTok
Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and a venture capitalist, has joined his bid to acquire TikTok's US operations. The former Los Angeles Dodgers owner and his partners submitted a bid for TikTok in early January, as a deadline approached that would require ByteDance to sell the app to a US owner or face a ban.
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China's Baidu to Make Latest Ernie AI Model Open-Source as Competition Heats Up
Baidu CEO Robin Li had long advocated for closed-source models as the only viable path for AI development, but the advent of DeepSeek has upended the sector. The startup offers open-source AI services that it claims are comparable in performance to US pioneer OpenAI's advanced systems but come with a lower operational cost.
