Beijing-based ByteDance late on Thursday rejected a report by US digital publication The Information, which said that it was “exploring scenarios” to sell a majority stake in TikTok’s US operations to firms outside the technology industry and without the algorithm that powers the platform. In a statement posted on its Jinri Toutiao news platform, ByteDance … Read more
A screenshot of the landing page for Gauth: AI Study Companion on Apple’s App Store. Photo: SCMP In July 2021, the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council banned private tutoring firms from making a profit via off-campus courses covering school curricula. Listed companies and overseas entities were also barred from … Read more
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 technology used to train ChatGPT and similar GenAI … Read more
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 or a ban, according to people briefed on the matter. … Read more
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 small number of users posted and hyped up false … Read more
The bill is headed to the US Senate, where both Democratic and Republican leaders have rejected the idea of fast-tracking its passage. 03:10 Protests at US Congress after House passes bill that could potentially ban TikTok nationwide Protests at US Congress after House passes bill that could potentially ban TikTok nationwide While US President Joe … Read more
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 from American platforms several years ago. That same year, the … Read more
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 Chinese version – is also working confidentially on AI … Read more
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 Chinese social media platforms this week during the Lunar … Read more
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, according to excerpts of his speech published by ByteDance … Read more
