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Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn

Bangkok’s Board of Investment cleared six major investments on Wednesday. Three of them are data centres. The headline is the TikTok number, but the larger story is what Thailand is becoming inside the regional AI infrastructure trade. Thailand’s Board of Investment is, on most readings, an institutional body whose press releases attract limited international attention. […]

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TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this

The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buyers by AlixPartners found that 58% had seen Chinese EVs on TikTok, 76% of 18-to-25-year-olds were aware of Chinese EV brands, and 69% […]

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TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre

The new facility in Lahti is part of TikTok’s €12 billion Project Clover data sovereignty push for European users. Finland’s defence ministry approved the first data centre investment in 2024 without informing elected politicians. A former minister publicly called for the project to be reconsidered. TikTok is investing €1 billion ($1.16 billion) to build a […]

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Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.

Three months after Australia became the first country in the world to ban children under 16 from holding social media accounts, its online safety regulator says the platforms are not doing enough to make the ban work. eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant released her first compliance report on Tuesday, alleging that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, […]

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TikTok’s policy for AI ads isn’t working

I’ve been struggling to tell whether the ads appearing in my TikTok feeds have been made with generative AI tools. As someone who spends a great deal of time scrutinizing images and videos for the usual “tells” that something was synthetically generated, some of the promotions I’ve seen have definitely sparked suspicion. For several weeks, […]

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