Katie Paul
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ByteDance’s non-Chinese investors emerge as front-runners to buy TikTok in US
Global investors own about 58% of ByteDance while founder Zhang Yiming owns another 21%.
Chinese state-linked accounts hyped DeepSeek AI launch ahead of US stock rout
The accounts promoted the idea that DeepSeek challenged U.S. dominance in the AI sector.
Trump offers a breather to TikTok, but conditions apply
Trump suggested the US government should be a half owner of TikTok's US business.
Meta’s new AI model that can generate video with sound challenges OpenAI
Movie Gen also can generate background music and sound effects synced to the content of the videos.
OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
OpenAI hopes the innovation will improve its AI models’ reasoning capabilities dramatically.
WhatsApp adds rival digital payment options in India commerce push
WhatsApp has more than 500 million users in India.
Zuckerberg pitches Threads as ‘friendly’ platform for public discourse online
However, the company will not extend its existing fact-checking program to Threads.
Zuckerberg takes on Musk with Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer’ Threads app
Threads' arrival comes after Zuckerberg and Musk have traded barbs for months.
Tech teams, engineers hit in fresh round of layoffs at Meta
Meta in March became the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs.
Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as senior executives quit, advertisers flee
Twitter is losing more than $4m a day as advertisers flee.
