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The US and China should consider how the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies and investors can be properly protected in the United States without raising unfair security concerns.
As many of the country’s tech founders hand over the reins, it’s worth remembering that once start-ups grow to a certain size they need professional managers to take over.
Caught between demands from Washington and Beijing, ByteDance has chosen the route of resistance in the US.
Concerns about Beijing’s potential to threaten US national security have spurred several bills seeking more scrutiny about who is representing Chinese interests.
Italian regulators have fined TikTok nearly US$11 million for failing to protect children, while the Canadian government is reviewing TikTok’s expansion plan for national security risks.
US senators from both sides of the aisle swatted down the idea of fast-tracking legislation that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the video-sharing app within six months, reducing its prospects of becoming law.
Seeing e-vehicles as ‘iPhone on wheels’ or cargo cranes as ‘Trojan horses’ yields never-ending cycle and ‘excessive anxiety’, says Ambassador Xie Feng.
Tencent is said to have snapped up some of ByteDance’s ditched video gaming projects amid continued industry consolidation.
The move comes after the US House of Representatives passed a bill that gives Chinese owner ByteDance 6 months to divest the app or face a ban.
ByteDance’s latest semiconductor-related investment shows the lengths being taken by the company to overcome the impact of tighter US tech sanctions on mainland China.
Fast-tracked legislation on the short-video app, which passed 352-65, now heads to Senate, where passage is less clear; US President Joe Biden has said he would sign the bill into law.
Ex-president’s U-turn coincides with recent meeting held with billionaire Republican megadonor who is deeply invested in parent company ByteDance.
AIsphere, which has raised more than US$14 million in a round led by venture firm Fortune Capital, launched a beta version of its PixVerse video generator for domestic users on Monday.
Moscow’s dire circumstances could lead to upended ‘non-proliferation norms’ and fuel disinformation meant to interfere with elections, Senate hears.
Many Chinese netizens on Weibo and former Global Times editor Hu Xijin praised TikTok for urging American users to flood legislators with calls against a new bill.
Start-ups and investors say attending Leap tech conference is about building relationships for a market seen as ‘like China in the late 90s’.
US president says he would sign the legislation if Congress passes it, with a vote in the House of Representatives possible as early as next week.
Chinese state media has voiced support for TikTok, as its owner ByteDance faces pressure to sell the business in the US after a House committee approved two new bills targeting the hit short video app.
Annual presidential address has Biden appearing vibrant and confident about US, including its partnerships and alliances in the Pacific.
The legislation gives China’s ByteDance six months to divest TikTok or the short video app would face a US ban.
The firm has offered to purchase shares from staff at US$170.81 each, up nearly 7 per cent from late last year.
American lawmakers’ latest effort is not expected to make progress just like previous attempts amid Beijing’s strong opposition and China’s tech export restrictions.
New push by American lawmakers would give TikTok parent company ByteDance 165 days to divest, else the popular app would no longer be available on app stores.
Alibaba’s latest artificial intelligence push reflects a new tech arms race in mainland China’s e-commerce sector.
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming and other key voices at the company view AI as a battle that it cannot afford to lose, one source says.
Unprecedented directive focuses on tackling the legal means by which foreign adversaries gain access, such as obtaining information via data brokers.
An engineer who worked on Google’s VideoPoet video generation technology has joined TikTok owner ByteDance, as Big Tech companies race to advance generative AI tools.
The introduction of Sora has forced China’s AI industry to again grapple with how it will catch up to the latest tech in the face of escalating US sanctions.
Tencent and ByteDance each had two apps in the top five, with four of the five being more than a decade old, according to MIIT report on Lunar New Year period usage.
TikTok owner ByteDance could face fines of up to 6 per cent of its global turnover if its popular short video app business is found guilty of breaching the European Union's Digital Services Act.