TikTok’s road to becoming a super app
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
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AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk
Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: “Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on […]
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ByteDance is building its own CPUs on Arm and RISC-V to feed its AI infrastructure
The TikTok parent is developing custom data-centre processors on two parallel architectures as Intel and AMD push prices up 10-35% a quarter and US export controls bite. ByteDance is developing its own central processing units to power the data centres behind its expanding AI infrastructure, according to a Reuters report on Thursday citing people familiar […]
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The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design
The TikTok parent will buy millions of Qualcomm application-specific chips for AI data centres and use Qualcomm to take its own design from blueprint to production. Qualcomm has struck a deal to supply ByteDance with millions of application-specific integrated circuits, the chip designer’s most prominent commitment yet to compete in the AI data-centre market it […]
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Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music
For years, UMG has pushed platforms, streaming services, and AI companies to implement stricter content moderation policies
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Malaysia issues a statutory demand to TikTok over content moderation failures
The MCMC’s first formal Section 39 enforcement under the Online Safety Act 2025 lands on TikTok, with a maximum financial penalty of RM10 million in play if the platform fails to deliver an enforceable moderation plan. Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Commission has issued a formal statutory demand to TikTok over what regulators describe as a […]
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TikTok asks Europe’s top court to scrap its gatekeeper status
The Grand Chamber of the CJEU heard ByteDance’s appeal in Case C-627/24 P on Tuesday, the first DMA gatekeeper challenge to reach the bloc’s highest court. ByteDance’s TikTok went before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union on Tuesday in a last attempt to escape its designation as a “gatekeeper” […]
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TikTok now wants to be the place you book the trip you just saw on TikTok
TikTok is systematically converting its discovery engine into a transaction layer, which both deepens user retention and opens entirely new revenue streams for its new owners.
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TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK
Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used for advertising purposes.
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TikTok is letting UK users pay to remove ads
TikTok is preparing to roll out a paid, ad-free version of its app in the UK. The new subscription announced today will be available to users over 18 “over the coming months,” according to TikTok’s announcement, and will cost £3.99 (about $5.40) per month. In exchange for that, TikTok will remove ads from the user’s […]
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