TikTok

The TikTok social media platform is largely credited with popularizing short-form videos. With over 1 billion active users worldwide, it has quickly become one of the most popular apps among Gen Z and millennials. Chinese company ByteDance owns the platform, and Shou Zi Chew serves as its CEO. TikTok faces competition from other social media giants such as Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube. Our coverage of the platform includes the company’s spending-heavy foray into e-commerce.

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China Is Slowly but Surely Breaking Free From Nvidia

By Qianer Liu · Nov 26, 2025 4:00am PST
ByteDance bought more Nvidia chips than any other Chinese company in 2025, according to three people with direct knowledge of its purchases. Racing to secure computing power for its billion-plus users and fearing Washington might suddenly cut off supply, the TikTok parent hoarded its stock of the chips. ByteDance’s fears about a supply crunch... ByteDance bought more Nvidia chips than any other Chinese company in 2025, according to three...
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Google’s Meta Talks Put the Ball in Nvidia’s Court

By Martin Peers · Nov 25, 2025 5:00pm PST
We’re getting close to the year’s end, when reporters’ minds turn to predictions for the new year. So here’s one: I predict sometime soon Nvidia will announce it is investing billions of dollars into Meta Platforms, in exchange for Meta committing to continue using Nvidia’s AI chips. This is just a wild guess, to be clear, but it’s based on how... We’re getting close to the year’s end, when reporters’ minds turn to predictions for the new...
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Google Unseats Anthropic With Gemini 3

By · Nov 19, 2025 7:04am PST
Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers had been on the board of... Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard...
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How Trump’s TikTok Tactics Helped Meta Win Antitrust Case

By · Nov 18, 2025 5:00pm PST
For once, the latest multibillion-dollar AI deal—this time Microsoft and Nvidia investing in Anthropic—isn’t the day’s biggest tech news development. (Skip down for details on that story.) More important was a Washington judge’s ruling on Tuesday that Meta Platforms isn’t a monopoly. So much for all those breathless headlines suggesting Meta... For once, the latest multibillion-dollar AI deal—this time Microsoft and Nvidia investing in...
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How OpenAI’s Sora is Evolving Like TikTok

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Oct 28, 2025 7:10am PDT
When OpenAI released its Sora video app last month, it seemed like an attempt to develop a TikTok-like viral video service with artificial intelligence at its core. And in some ways, usage of Sora has echoes in how TikTok is used.In a recent all-hands, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that 20% to 30% of Sora users created AI-generated videos... When OpenAI released its Sora video app last month, it seemed like an attempt to develop a TikTok...
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TikTok Empowers Chinese Executives in Management Revamp

By Juro Osawa · Oct 23, 2025 5:52am PDT · 1 comment
TikTok is implementing drastic leadership changes that pull the video app closer to the orbit of its parent ByteDance, just as Washington and Beijing are on the cusp of reaching a deal over the app’s future in the U.S. TikTok’s global content and distribution partnership teams, both led by Western executives, will be moved under Fiona Zhi, a ... TikTok is implementing drastic leadership changes that pull the video app closer to the orbit of...