CHARLESTON , S.C. (WCIV) — If you opened TikTok Friday, you probably got a message saying it was once again available to download in the app store. Local creators say the TikTok ban saga is still far from over. “There’s still a great deal of uncertainty,” lawyer and TikTok creator Erin Bailey said. On Thursday,…
Topline TikTok returned to Apple and Google’s app stores late Thursday, nearly a month after a ban briefly went into effect and barred it from being downloaded by U.S. users—as the Trump administration attempts to sort out a deal that would put it under U.S. ownership and avert an indefinite nationwide ban. TikTok returned to…
Twenty-six days after it was banished from US app stores, TikTok has returned to the iOS App Store and Google Play store. Apple and Google brought back the Chinese-owned video app after receiving a letter from US attorney general Pam Bondi assuring the companies they would not be fined for hosting it, Bloomberg first reported…
China’s venture capital (VC) firms have been sidelined in the frenzy surrounding DeepSeek, with none of them known to have invested in the open-source large AI model developer. Baidu Venture, an independent AI-focused investment arm initiated by its namesake Chinese internet giant, did not invest in DeepSeek even though the venture company sits just one…
By lodging its case with the WTO, the Hong Kong government may think it is taking a principled stance against US trade bullying. Unfortunately, this bully can’t be reasoned with; he beats his chest each time he flouts international law and norms shouting, “America first”. After all, this is US President Donald Trump 2.0 who…
Tensions between the world’s two largest economies appear controlled after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, belying months of anti-China bluster from the new US leader. Three days ahead of his January 20 inauguration, Trump had a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss issues including fentanyl and trade, an exchange he…
The US and Texas have ordered public service equipment to ban DeepSeek and Xiaohongshu Click to see story on 大纪元 Epoch Times Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issues a ban on the use of Chinese-backed apps DeepSeek, Lemon8, Moomoo, RedNote, Tiger Brokers, and Webull on government-issued devices Click to see story on Techmeme Texas governor orders…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Existing TikTok users were able to resume using the popular social media app following a short shutdown on Sunday, but anyone seeking to download or update the app in the past week have run into notifications from the app stores that they cannot download them. Android users who go to download…
The Stargate Project – a venture initially led by SoftBank Group, ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Oracle and Emirati investment firm MGX – plans to plough up to US$500 billion in the US over the next four years into an advanced network of data centres, housing high-performance computing infrastructure needed for AI development initiatives. The first such…
TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US export restrictions on advanced chips. The Beijing-based company introduced its closed-source multimodal model Doubao 1.5 Pro on Wednesday, emphasising a “resource-efficient” training approach that it said does not…