Video games
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1 day agoByteDance is selling its Moonton game unit to Savvy Games for a cool $6 billion
ByteDance is selling its gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games Group for $6 billion as part of a strategy to reduce gaming assets.
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European startups
fromTechRepublic
5 days agoByteDance's $2.5B AI Chip Deal Tests US Export Controls - TechRepublic
ByteDance accesses advanced Nvidia chips in Malaysia through cloud infrastructure, exploiting a gap in US export controls that restrict chip shipments but not overseas cloud access for Chinese companies.
European startups
fromEngadget
1 week agoByteDance will reportedly buy NVIDIA's latest AI chips to use outside of China
ByteDance circumvents US export restrictions on NVIDIA's B200 chips by partnering with Aolani Cloud to build computing systems in Malaysia, gaining access to approximately 36,000 processors through a $2.5 billion investment.
from24/7 Wall St.
1 week agoCNBC: ByteDance building AI chip capacity outside China using Nvidia Blackwell
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is working with a Southeast Asian company on plans to use Nvidia's Blackwell chips in Malaysia for AI research and development. The partner is a Tier 1 Nvidia cloud partner, meaning it gets priority access to Nvidia's latest chips directly from Nvidia. ByteDance plugs in through that relationship to access hardware it cannot legally obtain at home.
Artificial intelligence
Privacy technologies
fromwww.socialmediatoday.com
2 weeks agoTikTok rules out using end-to-end message encryption
TikTok deliberately refuses to implement end-to-end encryption in messaging to enable law enforcement investigations, despite security risks and its history of data misuse by parent company ByteDance.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoHow Disney picks its AI copyright battles depends on who's ripping it off
No, Disney did not release footage of a never-before-seen fight sequence between Marvel's Wolverine and Thanos (spoiler: Thanos won). That clip, which amassed over 142,000 views on X over 48 hours, was created using Seedance 2.0, an AI video generation model that ByteDance debuted last week. The tool created a buzz on social media, where one user made a hyperrealistic AI video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting over Jeffrey Epstein.
Intellectual property law
fromTechRepublic
1 month agoTikTok Owner ByteDance Targets 2026 Doubao AI Phone Relaunch
People familiar with the matter said the Doubao team has been in talks with major app platforms well ahead of the second-generation launch, focusing on securing limited but functional access for everyday services. Discussions have involved categories such as ride-hailing, food delivery, and ticketing, where deeper system access determines whether an assistant can complete tasks. Those negotiations are now part of the product roadmap, not a post-launch hurdle.
Gadgets
fromFortune
5 months agoTikTok's CEO used to work for Mark Zuckerberg as a Facebook intern. Just one decade later, he's become one of Meta's fiercest competitors | Fortune
Shou Zi Chew may be the CEO of Mark Zuckerberg's biggest competitor, TikTok, but at the start of his career, he worked for Zuckerberg as an intern at Facebook. The Singapore native earned an economics degree from University College London before getting his MBA at Harvard Business School, where during the summer he interned at an up-and-coming company: "It was called Facebook," Chew told Harvard's Business School alumni website.
Social media marketing
fromwww.bbc.com
6 months agoTrump and Xi to meet in South Korea as TikTok deal approved
US president Donald Trump said he plans to meet Chinese Premier Xi Jinping in South Korea next month following a phone call in which the Chinese leader also approved of a deal to take control of TikTok's US operations. Trump wrote on Truth Social the call was "productive" and the approval was "appreciated", adding that he would travel to China next year after the two meet.
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